What's goin' on?

Doing rather good at the moment, mentally.

Started acquring a physical library of some kind.

You

MY SSD IS DEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAD or it just needs a firmware update

I'm looking into building a personal cloud server.

Dat sucks, do you know how intel ssd's are?

Why?

Intel SSDs are some of the best on the market. Intel builds them to an enterprise level of reliability. They're usually pricier than other SSDs, (which is saying something since SSDs in general are already expensive) but they usually come with outstanding warranties and support.
If you're in the market for an SSD and have the money, definitely go for Intel.
The next best thing would be Samsung; Samsung produces all of the components for their SSDs in house instead of outsourcing.

A 240gb intel ssd would only be 281€, a 256 gigabyte samsung would be 219€

Right, Intel SSDs are generally more expensive, but they do have outstanding reliability.
Samsung seems to be the best deal atm.
The next upgrade I plan on making if I ever get enough money will be a Samsung or Corsair SSD.

I normally wouldn't be getting one but it's like they're necessary these days

One possible option is to get 3 or 4 high performance Harddrives and slap them in RAID 10 or RAID 5.
Even in RAID 0, they one wouldn't be as fast as an SSD, but they would still have good performance for general purposes and RAIDing those with another drive in RAID 1 would give you reliability.

What the hell am I reading?

RAID:
Redundant array of disks. A methods of data storage that can improve reliability, performance or both.

RAID 0:
Data is split evenly between multiple drives, which can effectively double all read/write performance. There do exist diminishing returns for every drive you add to this array, more so with SSDs than HDDs. That is, there's no point to having a RAID 0 with any more than two SSDs, but with HDDs you can go up to four drives before the diminishing returns become more trouble than what they're worth.
This RAID has absolutely no fault tolerance; if one drive fails, you loose everything on all drives in the array. (so it's really more of a "AID" and a "RAID")

RAID 1:
The original RAID. One disk mirrors the data of another, which effectively doubles the reliability of one drive. No improvement to performance but 100% fault tolerance.

RAID 5:
Dynamic parity RAID. Offers some improvement in performance with reliability.
RAID 5 works by having each drive containing parity data of another, RAID 5 requires a minimum of 3 drives to work.
Therefore, if one drive fails, the data on it can be reconstructed from the parity data of the other drives.
Consequently, you loose some storage space. Right now, I have 5 250GB drives in RAID 5 as high-performance storage, but only get to use 1TB of it.
From experience, RAID 5 offers fairly good read performance but low write performance since the parity data must be created in real time.

RAID 10:
A literal combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1. You get the excellent performance boost of RAID 0 with the reliability of RAID 1.

These are the most common forms of RAID, there exist many more but either obsolete or for enterprise use. Many good motherboards nowadays have will have RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10.

Pro-tip: Using a motherboard's onboard RAID-controller will not perform as will as using an independent RAID card.
Pro-tip: using a RAID card allows you to keep your RAIDs even if you change motherboard, but RAID cards are usually expensive.
Pro-tip: for RAID 0 and RAID 5 it's best to use identical drives.

You love that gif don't you?

hmph, yes, quite.