SSD/Regular Drive hybrid idea

Hi, my name's Mel and this is my first post.

I joined because I had an idea about building a machine with two drives: a smaller solid state device (32gb) for the operating system, and a second conventional drive. The idea is to put the page file and event log on the conventional drive to bypass the write-endurance problem of flash memory.

1) Has anyone done something like this before? Any opinions/input?
2) What else besides the page and event log are frequently written to, in windows xp?
3) any other ideas on how to minimize writes? Should I turn off system restore since I can't move that to a separate drive?

 

thanks

 

As far as I'm concerned, solid-state drives are far too expensive at present - and small. For the price of a 32 GB solid-state drive, you could get a 1 TB hard drive easily, with change!

What would the advantage of a SSD be in a normal desktop anyway? I can see it in a laptop on a very bumpy road, but otherwise...