[PLUG] Configuring Dual SSD/spinning HD System

Dale Snell ddsnell at frontier.com
Sat Oct 24 00:47:06 UTC 2015


On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 15:44:42 -0700 (PDT), in message
alpine.LNX.2.11.1510231541480.1161 at localhost, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> 
> > Some older mainboards have trouble booting from an SSD when there's
> > a tradition HD alongside it. I suspect testing is the only way to
> > know.
> 
>    The motherboard is an Asus Sabertooth 990FX, bought December 2011.
> Not sure if that qualfies as 'older' but I suspect it will boot off
> the SSD and use the HDD for variable data since this configuration
> was recommended to me way back then.


My mobo is an Asus M2N-MX, which was released 2007 (February, I
think).  It boots from the SSD with no trouble.  Your Sabertooth is
three or four years newer, so I'm sure you'll have no trouble.

--Dale

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