Solid drives are PERFECT for something like long term storage or install of programs you won't be messing with often.
But if you have the system swap file on them, they won't last very long.
What make mechanical harddrives slow is the head seek overhead, which can be minimized with a 2 disks strip RAID array. If you don't put important stuff on the harddrives you should not really worry much about data loss.
I've seen cases of SSD drives which gone bad after one year of use due to excess writes. Not to mention that nowadays any decent motherboards do support RAID.
What wear the Flashrom chips the most is the sector erase cycle which is required prior to any re-write. While flash based drives have an algorithm which attempts to minimize the wear and tear, it won't help much against massive amounts of writes any PC do to it's swap file during heavy use.
This is the only thing I have to say.
Also this flash wear issue is the exact reason why the OP did say:
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WARNING!! NEVER EVER DEFRAGMENT A SSD
Thanks for the guide, it's awesome !
Edit: Another thing I noticed after a second read is that at some point during the CPU power discussion, you unintentionally imply that GHz are measured "per minute" but it's per second.