With the old school slipper (not the dual setup) i had great succes with the spur/pinion. i dumped at least 50 gp3300 packs through 1 spur, before it started to worry about replacing. I use white-lightening on it, and a 18T pinion though. I can imagine a smaller pinion would cause wear sooner.
What motorplate where you using on yours? flex in that area is eating spurs.