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Date:      Tue, 18 May 1999 08:26:04 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
To:        girgen@partitur.se (Palle Girgensohn)
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Will IDE disks impact SCSI or system performance?
Message-ID:  <199905181426.IAA34389@panzer.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <37416684.64A54C87@partitur.se> from Palle Girgensohn at "May 18, 1999  3: 9:24 pm"

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Palle Girgensohn wrote...
> Hi!
> 
> Our main internal server, FreeBSD 3.2b with five large SCSI disks,
> running vinum and softupdates etc... It fast, and we're happy. It runs
> both filesharing (mainly NFS) and applications.
> 
> Now some guys here are interested in having a large archive with
> not-so-important data (read mp3 files...) and suggest a large IDE disk
> for almost no money at all. 
> 
> My question: will an IDE disk in a now SCSI-only system impact
> performance for the rest of the system?

It shouldn't have any effect on performance.

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@plutotech.com


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