SSD, HDD and Dual Booting

Question

I'm new to the whole SSD thing and wanted to know what I should partition my install of Linux along with Windows and what I should/could move to the HDD to reduce some wear and tear on the SSD. It would be nice to also hear what others may have done.

Answer 1

If new the the SSD thing means that you have an SSD that isn't from four of five years ago, you have nothing to worry about.  All that crap that still floats around the internet about needing to reduce writes to your SSD are true, but only if you use one of the first generation SSDs (like when they wre new the the market).  With wear leveling that actually works and improved garbage collection, today's SSDs should last a long time.  I have seen reports of people trying to wear drives out by just writing them to death, and the controller goes out before the flash gets worn out.  So at this point, all that stuff is probably just FUD.
Partitioning is a very personal thing.  No one else can tell you what the "best" layout would be (except me... just use a single btrfs and subvolumes!).  But in terns of a combined SSD/HDD situation, you should remember that although you want to store you media on the bigger rotational, putting your entire /home on the HDD is probably not the best idea.  There are all kinds of configuration files and whatnot in your $HOME that can seriously beneift from the super fast read speeds and low latency of a SSD.