I've just purchased a laptop Dell Inspiron 14z, with a HDD with 500G and a SSD with 32GB.
I installed 12.04 on it, setting the partitioning table like this: /home and swap partitions in the HDD, / partition in the SSD. Two days after installing, I changed some configuration file in the / partition, and after rebooting, the BIOS wouldn't recognize the SSD anymore.
The LiveCD was seeing it, but only with a size of 1GB. Eventually I had to call the technical support and I had the SSD replaced. The thing is, the technician told me that, even though I was playing with the partitions, probably the SSD was faulty. However, now I doubt. Maybe Ubuntu was accessing too often to the SSD or something, so that it got overloaded and crashed.
My question is: is it safe to install the / partition in the SSD? Do I have to have especial care when installing? (I've read about setting a partition for /boot, and even to leave the first 500MB of the SSD untouched, due to the MBR configuration, but I am not really sure if that would help). Any tip will be more than welcome.
Best Answer
Your SSD was likely defective if it failed almost right away after you bought it. Generally speaking you don't need to do much to use an SSD, putting / on it and /home on your hard drive is a common configuration. See these questions for more information: