SSD C: drive with HDD storage drive?

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Just have a question. I got a very small SSD (120GB) for my boot drive and plan to not write anything to it. Everything I write will be going to my HDD as I want my SSD to last a long time as writing to it reduces the lifetime.

So I have been watching the remaining file size on my SSD and I am noticing that the free space is constantly fluctuating and I am not writing to it. I have noticed it fluctuate from 69GB free to 72GB free and I am puzzled because I am not writing anything to the SSD.
 
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eh, if you're using Win7, just do regular system image backups, and let the OS run on the SSD as normal. if in X years you run out of SSD space or it appears to be 'wearing out', buy a new larger SSD and do a system-restore to dump the most recent image onto the new drive. heck, that's what i did when migrating from a small 100G HDD to a new 128G SSD for my OS.
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In all honesty not writing to the SSD is just pointless. By the time any write induced failure occurs your current machine will be a distant memory. The HDD is always at risk of mechanical failure and is not likely to outlast the SSD. The reason why its fluctuating is maybe the hibernation file, page file, or system restore files perhaps. They should be writing to the SSD or you will drop performance. You can turn hibernation off to gain space.
 
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Well also I just wanted the SSD purely for faster operating / boot purposes. None of my applications benefit from an SSD at all, so I am just writing to my HDD. I mostly just don't want to fill my SSD and be tasked with cleaning it up, I just plan on writing to my HDD. If I could somehow name my HDD the C drive and hide the SSD and use it only for boot/OS purposes then I would.
 
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eh, if you're using Win7, just do regular system image backups, and let the OS run on the SSD as normal. if in X years you run out of SSD space or it appears to be 'wearing out', buy a new larger SSD and do a system-restore to dump the most recent image onto the new drive. heck, that's what i did when migrating from a small 100G HDD to a new 128G SSD for my OS.
 
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