What in /home would benefit from being on an SSD?

Solution 1:

Here's a list of other things that might be useful (I've made this a wiki post so anyone can add to it):

• .cache - temporty cache files for browsers and other programs.
• .config - config files for programs
• .gconfd abd .gconf - GNOME configuration files
• .gegl-0.0 – file for GIMP
• .gimp-2.6 – files for GIMP
• .gnome2 – used by some GNOME 2 applications
• .gvfs – data folder for the GNOME virtual filesystem
• .local – user specific data. You will lose the Nautilus Trash functionality if this directory is put on a different partition.
• .macromedia – files for flash
• .mozilla – where all your Mozilla Firefox cache is
• .thumbnails – thumbnails for pictures, videos, etc (used by Nautilus)
• .thunderbird – where all your Mozilla Thunderbird cache is

Solution 2:

I would put everything on the SSD, provided that it's a modern SSD (i.e. fast and doesn't suffer from poor write-leveling), and provided that everything fits.

The latency improvement is really something.