content: Why they still put HDDs in laptops, objects that move while on, I don't understand. I mean, I do kinda. "Moar space", but in no way is advertising moar space worth the inevitable decline in speed and usability that always occurs as an HDD gets worn out from the machine being moved about. I always recommend an SSD upgrade to friends with laptops. Always. $40 and you get an ok 128GB SSD. It's just sooo much better. Then the only moving part is the fan. whip-de-doo about that. My first thought regarding the title was "but how many write cycles can it handle?" but then I realized "optical" so probably "way more than RAM". But it seems this was all pointless to read anyway. :(