If you are doing a fresh install, you should probably select to make the SSD drive as ext2, this method has no file journalling and if something goes corrupt, it's usually seen during bootup. ext2 also gets checked every now and then, and doesn't lock-up in a read-only method if something goes wrong. If it is a fresh install, select option noatime when creating the drive.
After install, look at your /etc/fstab file and make some modifications:
1) after defaults, add ,noatime to reduce the number of writes.
2) add two additional lines.
none /var/tmp tmpfs defaults,size=100M 0 0
none /tmp tmpfs defaults,size=30M 0 0
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# Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=whatever_number_this_is_keep_it_the_same / ext2 defaults,noatime 1 1
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /var/tmp tmpfs defaults,size=100M 0 0
none /tmp tmpfs defaults,size=30M 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda5 :
UUID=whatever_number_this_is_keep_it_the_same swap swap defaults 0 0
(Note: if you are using firefox for downloads, you'll need to make /tmp large enough to accept the largest file you expect to get)
