Is it safe to leave the /home folder on an SSD?

Solution 1:

No, it is not a bad thing. I have been using a /home on my sdd for at least 2 years.

But I did change /home/$USER/.config/user-dirs.dirs so all my user directories point to my HDD. Those directories (like Downloads and Desktop are my 2 main areas where things get written and stored).

I plan for failure: my SDD has -no- personal data. If it fails I buy me a new one and re-install Ubuntu. My personal stuff on my HDD that I can not restore (so addresses, a passwordsafe, vpn stuff etc and not music, movies or sofware I can re-download) are all also on 2 USB sticks.

The 15 minutes it takes to re-install Ubuntu onto my SDD make it worth keeping the default operating system things on it.