mixing IDE and SATA hard drives on a FreeBSD system

Andrew L. Gould algould at datawok.com
Wed May 4 14:44:58 PDT 2005


On Wednesday 04 May 2005 03:25 pm, Chuck Robey wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the warning.  I just did a google search on "sata 
reliability" with lots of interesting results.  The expected lifespan 
(MTBF) of a sata is lower than the scsi; but I haven't found any 
comparisons to ide yet.

Andrew


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