Dual os on ssd?

Hi There!
I have MBP early 2011 and i upgraded my hdd to SSD and ram to 16GB and I am using 500GB hdd in optical drive bay as data storage. Now I want to install windows 8.1 on my MBP.
My question is: does installing 2 os on one SSD affect its life or performance?
I have Samsung 250GB evo 840 SSD in my MBP as main drive, should I install windows on SSD or HDD?
I can create one saparate partition on my hdd to install windows on it but boot time will be high and performance will be low from hdd. Thats why I am thinking to install windows 8.1 on SSD but I don't want to reduce life and performance of SSD if dual os affects it.
Please suggest best solution.
Thanks!

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Next thing you know, screens smoked and according to the HP manual, you need to replace the "ENTIRE" display!! Not just the LCD screen, it's crazy. Anyhow back to the heat. When I was done replacing the screen and adding the extra 4gb of ram making it run 8gb of ram, I then installed a fresh OS version of Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit on the 320GB OEM 7200 rpm HDD. Notebook ran like lightning and would smoke most other peoples when it came to boot up speed! Only bummer about these is the cheese graphics setup. But that's for another time. Ok so now I'm running Ultimate 64 bit with 8gb of ram keeping 10 tabs open at once, cruising all over the net, running disk cleanup's and disk defragmenters after every new install of software. Also, I didn't like not having USB 3.0 so I bought a PCMIA 33mm card that's a dual USB 3.0 USB input PCMIA card that just slips into the PCMIA slot. Now I have 4 USB 2.0 and 2 USB 3.0 equaling 6 USB inputs! This was great until I realized the when the PCMIA card was being used I could feel it under my left palm and it got so hot sometimes I would have to just put the Probook to sleep and let it cool for a minute. Once you start using the USB 3.0 with an external hard drive you'll never want to use the regular ones again, best part, it was $5.45 on Amazon so check that out to. So I'm running all this software with all this stuff hooked up to the laptop and I use my Probook laying on my back on the couch with a pillow on my chest and the laptop on top of that. This made this Probook get hot!! I didn't really worry about it until I installed Speccy just to keep an eye on the temperature and seen it was climbing into the 145'F regularly! This is what I did and now the processor or SDD's or anything gets above 100'F even when I'm cranking it up. I bought an X mini USB fan like you said you have for $1.99 including shipping and handling of EBay. Not enough air flow, so I then bought another bigger aluminum 3 fan laptop cooler with ON/OFF switch off eBay for $5.99. I had them plugged into the USB up and running well keeping everything under 100'F but then realized eventually I was going to smoke my USB hub (eventually it will happen) so I did this. I got a common cell phone charger, cut the cell charger plug off the end of the plug. The plug has to be 5 volt 500ma and if you don't have one lying around you can buy them off Amazon for $1.99. You have to make sure the plug you use puts out the same voltage and can handle the same milliamps as a USB hub delivers!! I took the plastic pieces off the X fan until it left me with just 2 fans with the wires running off them cutting off the USB plug at the end and leaving me with just a black and a red wire coming of each fan. Power and ground. I then mounted the 2 fans blowing up (very important because you can suck warm air away from plastic) directly at where the OEM hard drive sits and right underneath where the processor chip sits (two hottest parts). I then soldered those two fans wiring to the other 3 fans wiring right on where they all met wired in series at the ON/OFF switch so the switch would still work with all five fans. I then cut the USB end off the metal laptop cooler and soldered / heat shrink tubed the final black and red wires coming off the switch heading to the plug. The bottom 2 fans closer to the mouse pad are blowing right on the HDD / processor chip, another fan is blowing away from the laptop in the middle and the top two fans are blowing onto the laptop like the bottom two. The idea behind the middle one blowing away is to cycle away the hot air and boy does this baby every work!! I never seen another temperature above 100'F ever and when I installed my first SSD and replaced the old school 320gb 7200 rpm HDD, the temperature dropped almost another 14 degrees!! Solid state drives have no spinning or moving parts so no heat! It's very easy to get the power button plate off and the keyboard off to clean out the cooling fan. The very first time I took it apart just to clean it, there was a huge ball of hair and dust just like you would find in a vacuum. It was nasty! After cleaning all that junk out I noticed a dramatic difference in the cooling ability. Also what you can do is in Power Controls in the control panel when you go to advanced settings you can set your processor speed to run at 99% max and keep your fan running all the time when plugged into A/C. adapter. This little trick keeps the laptop running at top speed, but for some reason makes everything run cooler and don’t forget in the BIOS to set the Pro-books. Attaching my laptop cooler which cost me a total of $8.00. I then used two sided sticky Velcro to keep it and the laptop cooler as one easy grab able object. Taking it apart to clean all the dust clumps out of it using some duster and connecting the laptop cooler to the Probook 4420s makes it run very fast and efficient and also keeps it so I can detach the cooler from it whenever I want. Another bonus is I still have my 6 USB outputs now that this five fan laptop cooler is running off a wall plug! Later on adding the SSD’s made such a huge difference also because I no longer had that hard drive spinning at 7200 rpm. Hope some of this helped!

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