Bear in mind that the speed and robustness of an SSD depends on the operating system, too. Microsoft seems to have tuned their filesystem performance more for rotating storage, and the relative speed of SSD suffers compared to a Linux system.
Whether that's because the MS system is getting better performance out of the HDD or worse out of the SSD is a topic for a different day.
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