November 4, 201114 yr Sorry if this is a bit of a special needs question. Can I run sata and IDE drives together at the same time with unraid? I found a couple of IDE drives I dindn't know I had and with the price of drives rising I thought I would use them for music storage. I don't know if it makes a difference but I am running an asus m4a78lt-m mother board which has both sata and an IDE port. Cheers Sam Mod Note: Corrected a type in the title to read 'SATA and IDE' - Raj
November 4, 201114 yr Author Is that just work as in it will just work as it should or it will work...but only just.
November 4, 201114 yr It will work. parity ST32000641AS_9WM0VD66 * 21807850 643949 disk1 WD-WCASY1281790 * 7820625 118277 640.12G 572.54G 90% 67.57G disk2 WD-WCASY3105600 * 6772225 245778 500.09G 426.92G 86% 73.17G disk4 MAXTOR_4K040H2_572129517188 * 1221896 7 40.04G 33.63M 1% 40.00G disk5 /dev/hda DIAMOND_080G_8F7200_100300006 The last 2 disks 4/5 I have set for thier own 'share" and are used just for open transfers instead of using a usb drive. Since they are slower then the rest of the drives they are not uses with the movies or music shares I have set up
November 4, 201114 yr I have happily mixed IDE drives with SATA in an unRAID set up. For most day to day purposes they are perfectly fast enough. Of course, they are slower than SATA, but if the server is only reading a single file at one time from the drive even an IDE drive can keep a gigabit LAN quite busy.
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.