Great, that's the answer I was looking for. My current emphasis is on storage rather than performance. So I just wanted to make sure that mixing the two speeds would be just as safe as using only one kind.
Thanks! On 9/17/07, Eric Schrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, the pool would run at the speed of the slowest drive. There is an > open RFE to better balance allocations acros variable latency toplevel > vdevs, but within a toplevel vdev there's not much we can do; we need to > make sure your data is on disk with sufficient replication before > returning success. > > - Eric > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 01:22:40PM -0500, Christopher Gibbs wrote: > > Anyone? > > > > On 9/14/07, Christopher Gibbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I suspect it's probably not a good idea but I was wondering if someone > > > could clarify the details. > > > > > > I have 4 250G SATA(150) disks and 1 250G PATA(133) disk. Would it > > > cause problems if I created a raidz1 pool across all 5 drives? > > > > > > I know the PATA drive is slower so would it slow the access across the > > > whole pool or just when accessing that disk? > > > > > > Thanks for your input. > > > > > > - Chris > > > > > > > > > -- > > Christopher Gibbs > > Email / LDAP Administrator > > Web Integration & Programming > > Abilene Christian University > > _______________________________________________ > > zfs-discuss mailing list > > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > > -- > Eric Schrock, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
