The idea is totally cool because of the technical side. It's like having state-of-the-art server system. It's quite little use performance-wise, but otherwise it's extremely cool. You would have server without *moving* parts. You could have passive cooling too. Nothing would move - except the electrons of course.
Write time won't be an issue. Those SSD drives do have I/O write capability too, right?
Somewhat more advanced system would be to run the whole system on a RAM memory partition, or use the SSD drive as a base for some of the memory partition stuff. I've written about the possibility of RAM memory based servers at
http://forums.srcds.com/viewtopic/7335. Japje posted reply about quake server experience - and he also mentioned SSD. You could sort out something together - keep me CC'd in your conversations (...damn, this board doesn't support CC's in PMs, PhpBB3 does...)
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RAM partitions could be also used as temporary medium between direct log writes and long term SSD storage. For example /logs/ directory could be RAM partition and you would then periodically copy everything from there to /logs_stored/ on a SSD partition. Similarly the SourceTV recordings could be first stored on a RAM partition and then periodically stored to a SSD disk.
I like the idea of "real computer" without moving parts. Those stupid mechanical devices tend to break and stuff like that. Electrons don't wear out, so they're reliable. These servers could go on forever
(except maybe the power source)
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