The TechReport gang have been hard at work beating seven 2.5" mobile drives to death in the Damage Labs™ to see which one lasted the longest. The interesting bit is that they include both regular hard drives and SSDs.

"The obvious questions, then, are how these two competing storage technologies stack up and which is right for you. In search of answers, we've rounded up seven 2.5" mobile drives, including SSDs from OCZ, Samsung, and Super Talent, and traditional mechanical drives from Seagate and Western Digital."