Does it make sense to have a small Sata SSD drive to run your xp from with the virtural memory on a separate hardrive? Or is the life span issue still an issue?
I would think you would want your pagefile on your SSD for maximum performance.
Life-span issues shouldn't be a problem with any quality drive. I know the Intel drives at least figure on 5 years of near constant usage which should translate into quite a bit more for most people.