I was worried that would wear out the SSD prematurely,
Keef, I realize you're not using the term literally, although I've heard of SSDs failing quite early in life. Are they subject to a reduced life span when worked hard? An open question, obviously.
I often see my hard drive busy while the computer is doing little but monitoring Skype and it seems it gets very little rest. It always seems to me to be and odd way to treat an electromechanical device and I would have thought going solid state on the operating system would have been the answer to this. Since they are expensive, and the integrity of one's system could be vitally important, is it a bad idea to have SSD at the front end?