Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 16:27:58 -0500 From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mixing IDE and SATA hard drives on a FreeBSD system Message-ID: <200505041627.58250.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <42792FC9.3070203@chuckr.org> References: <200505041522.25722.algould@datawok.com> <42792FC9.3070203@chuckr.org>
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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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