Hmm, Can Vista handle a Solid-State Drive? Also, I'm more concerned in regards to cost. Would a 1TB SSD be more pricyer? (I'm only going with one storage drive for now)

that article is from 2007 so...That's been fixed, but the recent record isn't too great on the whole. Consider also the Apple Macbooks with failure Seagate hard drives. As far as I'm aware, neither Hitachi, nor Western Digital, nor Samsung has had recent issues such as Seagate has. None of them are bad choices, and they all have 1TB or larger drives available.