I have a brand new SSD and would like to optimize my Ubuntu 12.10 installation for best speed and durability of device. From what I know, there should always be a lot of free space in an SSD, and write operations should be kept to a minimum. Since I always tend to have a lot of junk in the Documents/Pictures/Music/Download folders, I was wondering if it would be a good idea to mount /home on a separate HDD, or to just change the directories for Documents/Pictures/Music/Download by editing the $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs
file. What would be the performance cost with the first method? Are there any important system files in /home
that need to be frequently acessed to? (right now I already am mounting /tmp in RAM and using it for Firefox cache)