1TB 2.5" HDD? You need to compare the sweet spot for SSD and HDD ( 3.5" ). And HDD easily outpace SSD, and 10x is only a generalization, in fact given the price of SSD is rising and HDD is slowing dropping, the sweet spot between the two is actually edging close to 20x soon.
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It's a 4 to 6x gap [1].
[1] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2404258,00.asp
1TB 2.5" HDD? You need to compare the sweet spot for SSD and HDD ( 3.5" ). And HDD easily outpace SSD, and 10x is only a generalization, in fact given the price of SSD is rising and HDD is slowing dropping, the sweet spot between the two is actually edging close to 20x soon.