mixing IDE and SATA hard drives on a FreeBSD system
Chuck Robey
chuckr at chuckr.org
Wed May 4 13:28:18 PDT 2005
Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> My AMD K6-2 computer is in the shop getting upgraded to AMD64. If
> FreeBSD 5.4 is released next week, the timing couldn't be better.
>
> I was thinking about putting FreeBSD and swap on the ATA100 IDE hard
> drive and installing a SATA hard drive for home and database data. Is
> there any reason I shouldn't mix hard drive types? (I've never messed
> with SATA before.)
YMMV, but for myself, I notice that SATA is notably less reliable than
straight SCSI drives are. Less than Ide also. I don't know why.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
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