Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 20:25:45 +0000 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> To: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mixing IDE and SATA hard drives on a FreeBSD system Message-ID: <42792FC9.3070203@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <200505041522.25722.algould@datawok.com> References: <200505041522.25722.algould@datawok.com>
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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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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