Partioning SSHD's

Morning All,
In an attempt to bring a bit of a speed increase to my ageing Mac Pro I am looking at installing a couple of Seagate SSHD's. As I have to have both 10.8.x and 10.6.8 because of some legacy apps and Windows 7 for testing cross platform databases in FM I want to partition the 2TB drives into a number of partitions, (possibly five partitions as my boot partitions are all less than 150 Gig, Windows is less than 50 Gig). I have to use SSHD's because I can't afford SSD's by the way so any suggestion to go that route is a non starter.
My questions are :
1) Has anyone any experience with partioning these drives in particular and are there any issues that I should be aware of
2) Are there any issues in general with multi partioning a drive that impact negatively
Thanks in advance for any assistance

R5000, which is about $500 US. My current boot drive is a 2TB and the partition scheme is:
Mac HD 353 Gig               (10.6.8 used 176 Gig)
Mountain Lion 148 Gig      (10.8.5 used 64 Gig)
WIP 1024 Gig                   (Work Drive 497 Gig used)
Toolbox 477 Gig                (Used 203 Gig)
The other drives are a 2TB drive to back up the above partitions
A 2TB Storage drive which has a 128 Gig Windows partition on it and has 1.3 TB used
A 1TB Archive Drive for access to recently completed projects and has 680 Gig used

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HT201250 Can I partition my external hard drive and use one partion for time machine and the other one for data that i may want to use in different computers?

I have this doubt. I've just bought an external drive, especifically a Seagate GoFlex Desk 3 tb.
I want to know if it is recomendable to make a partion exclusively for time machine and let another one so I can put there music, photos, videos, etc that I should need to use or copy to another computer.
May half and half, 1.5 tb for time machine and 1.5 tb for data.
I have an internal hard drive of 500 GB (499.25 GB) in my macbook pro.
Any recommendation?

As I said, yes. Be sure your Time Machine partition has at least 1 TB for backups.
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to two (2). Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.

How to: make one or two partions at a raid system?

Hey
how can i make one or more a partions at a raid system?
i will make the partions at a 250gb raid. one with 120gb for the bootsector, and the other for documents, etc.
is there a hwo to anywhere? dont find one?
please read my second question.... 2 raids at one mac pro?
regarads

O.K., i was looking the hole day to get that partions on a raid working.
to make the partions on each HD with the same volume, this is no problem. when you then create the first raid, works fine. but when you make the second raid, you get a massage, that this raid is not found.
then you see both raids at the disc utilty, but only at the first you seen the volumen down under, by the second not. the first works, the second is not avabiele.
so, now i have only one big mirrowed raid for my boot sector, and its runs fast, quick and without big noise... thats what i want, and the second big raid for my files.
2 raids at one mac pro with 4 hd. one with 2 x 250 gb hd for the bootsector, and the other with 2 x 500gb for files
thx to all, and you kappy
regards

Intra - Partioning Query

Hi,
I'm trying to create an Intra Partioning Query but need a bit of help.
What i have so far is:
Select call_id,
Sum(decode(start_date_time (To_Date('12-JAN-2006', 'DD-MON-YYYY')), charge, NULL)) Charge12,
Sum(decode(start_date_time (To_Date('19-MAR-2006', 'DD-MON-YYYY')), charge, NULL)) Charge19,
Sum(decode(start_date_time (To_Date('12-JAN-2006', 'DD-MON-YYYY')), charge, NULL)) -
Sum(decode(start_date_time (To_Date('19-MAR-2006', 'DD-MON-YYYY')), charge, NULL)) diff
From phone_call
Group By call_id;
The error i'm getting is that it doesnot recognise "start_date_time.
I have checked the spelling and it matches up.
Appreciate any help
Thanks

you are missing Comms in decode after column
Select call_id,
Sum(decode(start_date_time , (To_Date('12-JAN-2006', 'DD-MON-YYYY')), charge, NULL)) Charge12,
Sum(decode(start_date_time , (To_Date('19-MAR-2006', 'DD-MON-YYYY')), charge, NULL)) Charge19,
Sum(decode(start_date_time , (To_Date('12-JAN-2006', 'DD-MON-YYYY')), charge, NULL)) -
Sum(decode(start_date_time , (To_Date('19-MAR-2006', 'DD-MON-YYYY')), charge, NULL)) diff
From phone_call
Group By call_id;

I have one 120GB SSD and one 1TB SSHD, how do do I make one of them my boot drive and the other my data drive?

I'm currently upgrading my mid-2010 Macbook Pro 13", I've purchased some new RAM and also a 120GB SSD and a 1TB SSHD (Hybrid SSD and HD) with the intention of using an OWC data doubler to get rid of my dvd drive and place the SSD drive there instead. So after I've placed everything into the Mac, how do I make the SSD my boot drive with the OS on it and everything, and the SSHD where all my data (music, photos etc) are stored?

Youll need to CLONE your internal HD to your target (temporarily) external drive.
1. grab carbon copy cloner or (my fave) superDuper CLONE app.
2. attach target clone drive via USB in an enclosure or HD dock. Firstly format the target (external new) HD in disk utility in “Mac OS extended journaled”
3. clone internal HD to target HD (external) [takes about 40 mins depending on size]
4. Boot ONCE from external (go to sys. preference to boot from external) to TEST the new Clone
5. open bottom (see videos on ifixit or youtube on same) and remove old, install new.
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Replacing+MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Unibody+Mid+2012+Hard+ Drive/10378/1
Done
(FIRST TIME after installing, boot will be SLOW,...normal and ignore that).
Clone APPS
Superduper does not clone the recovery partition, but that is NOT necessary if you keep the original HD as a “backup clone”. Most don’t bother with the recovery partition in a clone, however that is your prerogative.
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
(Free superduper APP above)
CCC App
http://www.bombich.com/

My Macbook pro was stolen 09/12, the police just returned it to me. I want to remove all the data and start over. Format the drive's etc. I have windows 7 on 1 partion and mountain lion OSX on the apple partition. How is the best way to do this?

My Macbook pro was stolen 09/12, the police just returned it to me. I want to remove all the data and start over. Format the drive's etc. I have windows 7 on 1 partion and mountain lion OSX on the apple partition. How is the best way to do this?

Have a look here...
what-to-do-when-your-hard-drive-is-full.html

Dreamweaver 8 - Issue saving to Mac partion from Windows

I just bought an Intel Mac, which I'm running Windows on
using Bootcamp (as all my Adobe software is for Windows). I use a
software called MacDrive, so when I'm working in Windows I can
access files saved on the Mac partion. But I'm having issues saving
files in Dreamweaver to the Mac partion. Everything appears to save
correctly, until I go back and open the file, and see that the end
of the file will have leftover data in it from the previous save.
For example, if I remove two lines of code from an HTML file, then
when I re-open the file, I'll have a duplicate set of
</body></html> tags leftover from the previous version
of the file. I do not have this problem when editing and saving
files to the Mac partion using Notepad or any other Windows
program, only Dreamweaver.
Has anyone here had a similar problem? If so, were you able
to fix it somehow? If not, would you be willing to help me contact
Adobe to get this issue solved? Thank you for your time.

Don't want to hijack the thread, but since you mentioned a
cross-grade I
have a question. I will be making the move from being PC
based to MAC based
in the next 6 months. Since I will be replacing my aging dell
laptop with
an imac pro, my next desktop purchase will be mac as well
With the current CS3 I will just be running in parralels, but
I asked about
when cs4 comes around if I could just upgrade to the mac
version. I was
told by a cs rep that this is not possible I would have to
purchase a fresh
install. Is this not correct, is there a way around it?
thanks,
randy
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> Instead of running boot camp have you ever considered
looking at Parallels
> or
> Fusion?
>
> Both of those are very good options for running Windows
applications on a
> Mac.
> Then you would only need to boot into the Mac OS and
then launch those
> apps.
>
> Or you could always contact Adobe about a cross-grade.
However, if you
> are
> already using CS3 on the Windows license you might want
to wait for the
> next
> version around to this.
>
>

How to create a new partion in my HP (Compaq LE1902x )PC that has already 4 primary partitions ?

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I would consider another problem. What if the hard drive (not the OS) fails. You'd lose all your data, all partitions. It seems better logic would be to copy your files and folders to either an external hard drive or USB thumb drive.
I would not use the internal backup program, but would manually copy the data. I also would not leave such device attached to the computer.
In my system I have a separate USB thumb drive that stored critical medical and legal documents. That way, I can travel with it, as needed. I also clone my primary desktop every 30-45 days. That way, if I get a failure, it's only that far back on lesser files.
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After the 10.9.4 update, ssh no longer worked until I poked a firewall hole for sshd-keygen-wrapper

I upgraded two of my Macs, a Mac Mini, A, and a MacBook Air, B, to OS X 10.9.4, using Software Update. After that, I could no longer ssh from A to B, but ssh from B to A worked fine. After some poking around for differences, I then noticed that in Mac B, I had made an exception for /usr/libexec/sshd-keygen-wrapper in System Preferences: Security & Privacy: Firewall: Firewall Options. When I deleted and re-added that, ssh from A to B worked again.
But on A, I have no such "hole" in the firewall, yet ssh from B to A works fine. What is going on?
I no longer recall whether I had myself initially added that sshd-keygen-wrapper setting on B... and why exactly I had got the (perhaps incorrect) idea that it is needed. (But if it is, why would one have to add it manually, and wht does ssh from B to A work fine without it?)

Let me add that Mac A is the machine I am physically logged in on, and I did the check sshing from B to A in a Remote Desktop session, so the situation is not entirely symmetrical.

My mac book air can't start installation, because i use windows installation in DOS to make partion, now no mac os on it. How to get back the mac os? i have a window based iso image from a friend, because in my country there is no Apple service.

my mac book air can't start installation, because i use windows installation in DOS to make partion, now no mac os on it. How to get back the mac os? i have a window based iso image from a friend, because in my country there is no Apple service.

It sounds like you destroyed your boot partition and the recovery partition. Depending on it's age, your MacBook Air might be able to do a net boot. Plug and ethernet connection into it and attempt to boot. If it has the right firmware, it will find a net boot configuration on the net and boot that. Then it will give you a Recovery Partition like display and allow you to reinstall the OS X version that came with it.... assuming that it was Lion or ML. If your computer came with Snow Leopard, then even the net boot won't work.
At that point you need a bootable USB Key, or an external DVD drive AND a Snow Leopard installation DVD.
An Apple Store, if there is one nearby, MAY be able to get you going again. However, whatever is on the SSD now will be toast too.

Successful install of Seagate 1TB SSHD

I finally have successfully installed a new Seagate 1TB SSHD drive, and thought I'd describe the process and some problems I had and how I got around them. I can't claim this is the best or proper way to do the job, as I was floundering around a lot, but eventually it worked and I wanted to describe what worked and didn't, which might help others. I'll put the crucial parts that actually worked in bold.
The new drive was:
Seagate 1TB Solid State Hybrid Drive SATA 6Gbps 64MB Cache 2.5-Inch ST1000LM014
My computer is a mid-2010 MacBook (white) with OSX Mavericks 10.9.1.
I have a large external USB drive I use for backups with Time Machine. I first did a regular Time Machine backup of my data. Then, I tried to install the new drive using this strategy: make a disk image on the backup drive using system-restore Disk Utility; remove the old drive and install the new one; restore the disk image to the new drive using system-restore Disk Utility. This DID NOT WORK. I'm still not sure why not, it seems like it should have. The problem may have been that I chose the wrong icon within Disk Utility to drag to the source drive text box: I chose the disk drive icon (not indented), whereas I now think I should have chosen the Mac OSX disk volume partition icon (indented icon). More on this below.
To SUCCESSFULLY install the drive, I bought a USB-internal HD cable (I bought the Apricorn cable) and used it to directly connect the new drive to the USB port so I could copy the data directly from the old drive to the new, using system-restore Disk Utility. Here are some notes on the process:
The actual mechanical process of installing the drive is simple, if you have a tiny phillips screwdriver (or a tiny flat-blade of the correct size, which is what I used). You just unscrew the 8 screws on the bottom cover, pop it off (being careful not to knock the rubber coating off the metal edge, as it is hard to get back in place), carefully undo the power connector (find a photo online showing it) with a LARGER screwdriver or blade so you don't break the corner off of it like I did, then unscrew the 2 screws holding the metal bar (find a photo) that holds down the drive. Pull the drive up and pull the connector off of it carefully with your fingers. There are two nubbins on the old drive that are screwed into it and stick out so that the metal bar can clamp down on them. I needed pliers to loosen these before removing them with the small screwdriver and putting them into the new drive. Then reverse the process to get the new drive in place. But this whole process is done LAST, after you have copied your data to the new drive (unless you want to try using the disk-image approach with an external USB drive, that I couldn't get to work but which might work in the right hands).
You cannot create a disk image or copy (clone) the disk that is the running OS using Disk Utility. It gives you an error message that it cannot do this, probably because the active disk is constantly changing and you don't want to try to copy a changing thing. To get around this, you need to boot into system recovery mode and use its Disk Utility, which is done by rebooting and holding down Command-R until the apple icon shows up. Mine booted this way from an internal small drive separate from the hard drive, but when that is corrupted or missing or when there is some sort of incompatibility between it and the installed hard drive (as happened the first time around when trying to use the backup disk to restore an image), my system instead boots recovery mode from the wi-fi network (I needed to enter the wi-fi password).
There is a severe problem with Disk Utility in system recovery mode. The system goes to sleep, and when it does, the disk copy process stops. Since it takes hours to do the disk copy, you aren't going to sit around pressing a key to keep the system awake. You get around this problem as follows:
- In system recovery mode, don't start Disk Utility, but instead, use the menu item that starts Terminal.
- At the Terminal window prompt, enter the commands "pmset sleep 0", "pmset disksleep 0", and "pmset displaysleep 0" to disable sleep.
- If you exit Terminal window in order to start Disk Utility, apparently the sleep settings disappear and the system still goes to sleep (at least, the alternative sleep command "pmset noidle &" does, but maybe the above commands remain in effect). To get around this, you can start Disk Utility directly from the Terminal window, as follows: use the cd and ls commands to find your way to the recovery disk folder where Disk Utility is located: start with "cd /", then "ls" to see what is there, then "cd Volumes", then "ls", then "cd OSX Startup Disk" (not the right name, and I can't find it right now, but look at the names and figure out which is the recovery disk, start over if you get it wrong), then "ls", then "cd Applications", "ls", "cd Utilities", "ls", "cd Disk\ Utility.app", "ls", "cd Contents", "ls", "cd MacOS", "ls", and finally, there is "Disk Utility" and you run it with "Disk\ Utility" or "./Disk\ Utility". Note that you can press the tab key after entering the first character or two of a name, and it will auto-complete the rest of the name, a great speedup when doing "cd" commands.
With the new drive connected to the USB with the special cable, and booted into system recovery and in Disk Utility, you first want to erase/format the new drive. You should see the drives listed on the left side of disk utility, including the original drive that you want to copy, the new drive, and the system recovery drive. If you have an external USB backup drive connected, you should see that. It is important to make distinction between two types of drives/icons shown in the list. You will see that some icons are indented relative to others. The ones that are not indented are actual physical drives. The ones that are indented are partitions or virtual disks or volumes on the drive under which they are indented. Since the term "disk" might easily refer to either one, let's use "drive" to refer to the unindented icon and "volume" to refer to the indented icon. Probably you will have only one indented volume icon under each unidented drive icon, but you will have more than one if a drive has more than one partition, or if you have the problem I experienced (more below).
Drives are formatted by choosing the "Erase" section of Disk Utility, then selecting the unindented drive icon (not volume icon), choosing Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled), and changing the name from untitled to something else (I don't think it matters if the name is different than the name of your original drive). Then click "Erase".
I had a problem that possibly stemmed from creating a drive image instead of a volume image on my backup drive, then attempting to restore the drive image to a volume on the new drive instead of to the new drive itself. At any rate, what happened was that my new drive showed TWO volumes, both with the same name of "Mac OS HD", and whenever I erased the new drive, one of the volumes would disappear but not the other, and then when I tried again to restore the disk image, the second volume would reappear. I finally got rid of this situation by doing an erase operation but using the Security Options button and selecting "Zero Out Data". I let this run for about 5 minutes instead of the 7 hours it wanted to run. Then I cancelled it, and lo and behold, BOTH volumes were gone from the new drive, and only the new drive icon showed up. I was then able to format the disk with plain "Erase" (maybe with a "Repair" also), followed by copying of the old disk to the new, and that was all that was necessary to get a working disk.
After formatting the new drive, I thought maybe I needed to go to the Partition section of Disk Utility and create a partition. However, this was not necessary. I didn't do it, and yet the act of copying the old disk to the new apparently automatically created a partition.
To copy the old drive's data to the new drive, after formatting the new drive as above, select the "Restore" button in Disk Utility, drag the indented VOLUME icon (not the unidented DRIVE icon) to the Source text box, drag either the drive or volume icon of the new drive to the Destination text box (I'm not sure what I dragged, or whether it matters; the description above the Destination text box says to drag a volume, not a drive. Logically, it makes sense to copy a drive to a drive, or a volume to a volume, and not cross the two. But it may be that you have to drag the drive because there is no volume after erasing the new drive, I can't remember since I went through various problems with the formatting, as described above). Then click Restore. It takes many hours to complete, and additional hours to go through its verify process. When finished, shut down, then take out the old drive and put the new one in, power up, and cross your fingers. I couldn't believe it when it worked!
The system with the new drive seems to be working well, and faster, although there was a disturbing pause while typing for a while. This seems to have gone away. I was concerned that maybe the firmware in the drive needed updating, but after considerable trouble with Seagate's problematic downloads web site, I finally got a message that my firmware was the latest and did not need upgraded.
I still think the idea of using a large backup drive with adequate space for a disk image of the old drive should be a viable way to do this. The process I would use to try this would be:
- backup data with time machine
- boot to recovery disk with Command-R held down, then start terminal, disable sleep, and start disk utility from it
- in disk utility, make a disk image by choosing "Restore", drag the VOLUME icon, not DRIVE icon, of the old disk to Source, and drag the backup drive to Destination. I can't remember now how I selected that an image be created, rather than copying and overwriting the entire backup drive, but I think it was an "image" button that did it. Click Restore.
- When the image is done being created (many hours), shut down, remove the old drive and insert the new one, and reboot into recovery mode (will boot from wifi), go to terminal, disable sleep, start disk utility from terminal.
- Select the new disk, choose "Erase", and erase it to format Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with a name you give it instead of untitled, and click "Erase".
- Choose "Restore", drag the backup drive to source, click "Image" and select the image file that was created, drag the volume from the new drive to the destination text box, or if there is no volume, drag the drive to the destination box, and click Restore. After many many hours, it should be done. Reboot and cross your fingers.

No, I didn't ask. Perhaps I should have, but thought there must be so many people doing it that the info would already be there. I looked at a lot of posts about it. Many in fact did mention Carbon Copy cloner, but after I found out I'd have to pay to use that, I focused more on ways to do it with Disk Utility. Also, because I didn't have the USB cable, I focused at first on trying to find a way to do it with my backup USB drive and Disk Utility. I couldn't find any posts describing doing it that way, or saying that that way would not work. So I decided to give it a try, and although I failed that way, I'm glad I tried, and I still think it might work if done right.
It would not help to disable sleep in System Preferences, given that a different OS is booted using system recovery in order to run the stand-alone Disk Utility. It does not use the same preferences that the running system uses. I gather that Carbon Copy is able to do the disk cloning from the regular running OS rather than the stand-alone recovery OS? That makes a big difference in how one goes about the whole process, but the posts generally say nothing about this.

Dual Boot with Win8 on UEFI with SSHD

Hi folks!
I have a Lenovo Y40 laptop which currently has Windows 8.1 preloaded, which I unfortunately have to keep for a host of reasons. I've been meaning to install linux on my laptop for a while though, and now I finally have the time. However, I've been doing some research, and there are just too many things I don't understand that are keeping me from just jumping in and installing "on the fly".
Here's where my problems are:
This laptop has a hybrid drive in it, specifically the WDC WD10S21X-24R1BT0-SSHD (I copied this out of the device manager), and I hear linux has problems with that? Also, this laptop uses UEFI, which I have zero experience with. Lastly, I have no idea which of the many preloaded partitions (listed below) are necessary for windows 8 to boot and function properly.
List of my partitions:
Two partitions labeled "Recovery Partition" in the disk manager (one 1GB and the other 15.64 GB)
The EFI partition
A partition labeled "OEM Partition"
The partition my C:\ drive is on
This absurd 25 GB partition with the name "LENOVO" which is mounted as D:/ and has folders named "Applications" and "Drivers"
So basically, I simply do not know how to install arch (or linux in general) on this kind of a system. I'm really hoping someone can generously give up some of their time to maybe send a few links and some basic steps to get this installation procedure going.
Thanks!
P.S. I have installed Arch before, but on a BIOS system with "normal" MBR-formatted hard drives. I'm pretty good with Linux, so you can assume a fair amount of previous knowledge.

mahkoe wrote:This laptop has a hybrid drive in it, specifically the WDC WD10S21X-24R1BT0-SSHD (I copied this out of the device manager), and I hear linux has problems with that?
Sounds unlikely; what problems? Where did you hear this?
As for your partitions: shrink the C: partition (from Windows, defrag first) & mount /boot to the EFI partition (ie share this partition with Windows).
Leave all the other partitions intact.
Just follow the Beginner's Guide, it includes details pertaining to installing UEFI systems.

How do I erase the data from a partioned hard drive. I've already erased trhe bootcamp drive but I can't erase OSX. The operating system is Snow Leopard.

How do I securely erase all the data from my hard drive (it has a bootcamp partion which I succesfully erased). I'm giving my Macbook Pro to my daughter but I want all the data securely gone before I give it to her. Disk Utilities does not allow me to start the erasing process.

You can not erase a drive you are using to boot and run the computer.
You have to boot the computer from a CD/DVD disc, thumb drive or external drive that contains the files need to start the computer and has the Disk Utility program on it.
Tha would be the original system Discs that came with your computer or a CD/DVD disc, external drive or thumb drive you specifically made to do this.

Windows 8.1 64bit will not install on Bootcamp partion

Hey guys so i use bootcamp to install and partion the hard and then get onto the windows 8.1 installer. Everything goes well till i get to the hard drive point were i format the BOOTCAMP hard drive. it still has the error at the bottom saying
" Windows Cannont be instaled onto this disk. The Selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systeams, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks. Windows cannon be installed to this disk.
The computers hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure the disks controller is enabled in the computers BIOS menu."
I have a Mid 2012 Macbook Pro UNI BODY. with a 500GB hard drive.
Thanks..

Hey Melophage i have created a bootcamp partion with disk utility using ExFat(i previously used Bootcamp Assistant to create a partition and still got the error, i also got the error with disk utility.) and i re-did the commands and i have got the followings:
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            417.4 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s5
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                81.8 GB    disk0s4
USER-MacBook-Pro:~ USER$ diskutil info disk0
   Device Identifier:        disk0
   Device Node:              /dev/disk0
   Part of Whole:            disk0
   Device / Media Name:      APPLE HDD ST500LM012 Media
   Volume Name:              Not applicable (no file system)
   Mounted:                  Not applicable (no file system)
   File System:              None
   Content (IOContent):      GUID_partition_scheme
   OS Can Be Installed:      No
   Media Type:               Generic
   Protocol:                 SATA
   SMART Status:             Verified
   Total Size:               500.1 GB (500107862016 Bytes) (exactly 976773168 512-Byte-Units)
   Volume Free Space:        Not applicable (no file system)
   Device Block Size:        512 Bytes
   Read-Only Media:          No
   Read-Only Volume:         Not applicable (no file system)
   Ejectable:                No
   Whole:                    Yes
   Internal:                 Yes
   Solid State:              No
   OS 9 Drivers:             No
   Low Level Format:         Not supported

My 2012 Mac Mini came with a SSD and with Yosemite, can I add a SSHD and also migrate everything from a Macbook Pro that is running Lion 10.7.5?

Hi Apple Community,
Today I received a refurbished 2012 i5 Mac Mini that I purchased via Amazon. The Mac Mini came with a 256gb Samsung SSD only installed. The Mac Mini also has 10.10.2 Yosemite.
I am planing on ordering an "OWC Data Doubler Mounting Kit" to add another drive onto the Mac Mini.
(http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/DIYIMM11D2/)
I also plan on getting a second drive which would be a 1tb SSHD Black Western Digital (16GB SSD) 2.5 SATA III (6.0GB/s) 5400RPM drive.
Now here is where I am a very confused and concerned. What I essentially want to do is use Migration Assistant to completely migrate what I have on a 2012 i7 Macbook Pro's 750gb HDD to the Mac Mini's 1tb SSHD drive. I want every file and setting to be placed on my new Mac Mini just the way it is on the Macbook Pro. The Macbook Pro is however using 10.7.5 Lion while my new Mac Mini is using 10.10.2 Yosemite.
What makes me confused is, if I migrate everything from the Macbook Pro onto the 1tb SSHD, would I still be able to benefit by having the 256gb Samsung SSD in the Mac Mini? For instance, would the Mac Mini still be able to boot up super fast and use the SSD to write and read programs very fast? Or is it because I am migrating everything from my Macbook Pro's HDD onto the Mac Mini's 1tb SSHD, my Mac Mini will not be able to use the speed benefits of the SSD?
Another concern is, will I be able to use Yosemite or will I be stuck with 10.7.5 Lion? I would only like Yosemite. I do not mine if Lion is removed from my new Mac Mini.

UPDATE:
Hi again,
I made more research on raid and now I am considering not to raid at all.
Raid0 seems extremely risky because I do not know how the SSD and SSHD would react together.
And Raid1 seems like it would not be able to function the way I would like to store my files. [The SSD is 256gb and SSHD is 1tb, there is no point in raid1]
I think I will just have to add the second drive and use it without raid. I will mostly save media files such as movies, pictures, and music. And for everything else, save it onto the SSD's storage.

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