HDD to SSD Offloading

I have a netbook with all partitions on a HDD, but I am thinking of offloading some mount points (I'm thinking of /usr/bin, firefox cache, and /home/ebooks) to a 8GB uSD card (using ext4 and LVM) so that the HDD will spinup less frequently and for greater performance (when both drives are accessed simultaneously, since otherwise the SSD is ~3x slower). Any suggestions?

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    Once the screws are removed under the angular feet the back comes of the laptop.
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