[Q] dual HD partitioning with sata and SSD

I have a computer that has a 500gb sata drive and a 16gb solid state drive. the computer only boots from the sata and I was wondering if I could partition the drives so that arch boots from the sata but the arch installation is on the solid state drive.

teateawhy wrote:
If you run
lsblk
are the SSD and the HDD shown as separate devices? Or is it a HDD that uses a SSD as its cache?
If HDD and SSD are separate devices, what you want is possible. Otherwise i can't say, probably not.
they are separate drives

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Now I found out that it is only a SATA II SSD which is connected to the SATA 6G Chipset port.
I called the Hotline, just to clarify if it is normal to build in older standards or by accident. The guy told me, that his hardware supervisor mentioned, that it is impossible to run a SATA II SSD on a SATA 6G port which is totally nonsense. I'm a litte bit confused about the statement and would like to know if anybody else with an original SSD, ordered with a late 2011 MacBook Pro, has build in such old stuff.
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Does anyone have issues with the Macbook Pro 2011 Model with a Sata3 Solid State Drive ?
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However I am bringing my MBP for a repair, logic board replacement and will post the results after they change the logic board for me.
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Hotjase, have you come to understand that the issue lies with the logic board? One would hope that Apple would owe up and come forward if there are in fact faulty logic borards. I have read that Apple have gone from 6/3 to 6/6 and then back to 6/3, though I do not know if this is applicable to all MBP models, or just some. As I sayed, I have the 13" model.
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Wow. Thanks for the extremely quick responses. Just for a few points of clarification.. I'm a complete newb at backing up strategies.
Steve, you would recommend to not backup files from my Mac OSX and files from Windows (also on my Mac) on the same drive, correct?
I appreciate the strategy of using it only as a backup, that makes quite a bit of sense. However, if I want to only backup my OSX files, and also store (solely as backup copies) say, a number of computer models (Rhino, Revit, etc.) that were created in Windows programs (not needing to store the entire Windows disk), would it not make sense to store these on the same drive in a different partition, creating the need for two different partition formats? And if I were to do this, maybe I should use NTFS instead of FAT32 (and reformat to GUID since that seems to be a standard for Apple and Windows 7 recognizes it..?) to keep them completely separate since the computer model files cannot be opened unless running the Windows programs.
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In your title you say partitions. In the body of your message you say HD which I take as hard drives. Which is it?
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[Q] dual HD partitioning with sata and SSD

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