I am having I/O related performance problems that would be solved if a few relatively small tables were running on a SSD. I can\'t move the entire DB to SSD because it is m
When you create a MySQL table you can specify the data directory and index directory.
Have a look at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/create-table.html
So, to answer your question, you could create a new table in the different directory and migrate your data there.