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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