Time Machining a HDD and SSD as one drive?

[SPerk15]

I really reallly want an SSD boot drive with all my music,movies, and photos on a 1TB HDD. But I also want a separate HDD for time machine. Can I have the time machine back up the SSD and HDD as one drive or do I need to partition my 1 TB time machine into two time machines...one for the SSD and one for the HDD?

The logistics are spinning through my head and I'm confusing myself. Either was is fine, I just want to know an answer before I mess something up when I try myself. Thanks!

 

[Lnx2Mac]

No need to partition your backup drive for this. Time machine does a file-level backup, not a clone image.

Time machine will backup both volumes (drives), and put them in separate hierarchies under its Backups.backupdb folder.

 

[SPerk15]

perfect! Thank you, and by the way your guide on moving the users folder is what I'm going to use!