An update:
I ended up transitioning over to the FSLogix route as many other people reported success with it. In all my testing I did with writable volumes, I just found that they were unreliable more so whenever PST's are attached in a mail profile and the search index needs to be roamed. We use very small mailbox sizes in our environment, 2GB for all users running Exchange 2010 (Migrating to 365 later this year). Naturally PST's are the only remedy for storing email for the end users and can't be avoided. We allocate enough storage per user (each has their own home drive) that they are able to store PST's on. Problem is, PST's that are referenced on UNC locations also cause indexing issues. I couldn't justify spending more time trying to figure out why writable volumes would cause the search index to rebuild at every log on, take massive amounts of time per user depending on the size of those PST's for Outlook to finish indexing and also prevent users from searching in Outlook at all while they waited for indexing to finish. FSLogix works well so far, as we have been using it for about three weeks now with no reported issues yet.