Played the beta and hated it.
It all had a very 'casual' feel. Everything was slow and lacked precision, sort of like the game had been directly ported from consoles and they hadn't though in the speed differance between mouse and analogue sticks.
Both have their advantages and disadvanages.
HDTVs tend to be bigger (though not always)
A good HDTV can match a more expenisve and smaller pro-monitor in colour reproduction as they use alpha IPS panels.
Monitors have higher pixel density and lower pixel pitch.
TVs have higher brightness and...
SSDs are really just plug and play so you don't have to do anything special. They have firmware that you can update for performance increases but it's no nessacery. You can use any SATA port you wish.
What i'ld do is just plug it in then boot to that drive with the OS disk in the DVD drive...