I know solid state drives are loved by many but I don't see why?
Obviously it uses flash technology which is very fast but it is still limited to the supposed 10,000 read/writes that flash technology is said to produce at a maximum. With this, it would be useless to use an SSD for an operating system/files/programs as the drive would have to be replaced after becoming corrupted. Also, the price of a 1tb ssd of a minimum of £200 is also quite rediculous. However, hybrid drives, for me, seam a good idea as long as the flash partition is backed up on the drive!
Most SSDs are designed for much more IO loads than what you stated. It takes a very long time to corrupt most SSDs unless you're writing and reading from the drive constantly over a span of years. SSD consumes significantly less power and have less noise than traditional HDD. Hybrid drive isn't of any use since most of the time, the IO is going to be quite low since you don't always use the exact same file from the HDD. The speed of a SSD is much much faster than HDD and thus everyone is using it.