Dangerous to Mix IDE and scsi hard drives?

[SnoopCat]

someone once told me that if i use a fast scsi and a slow ide hard drives simultaneously, it will burn out the ide drive because it will try and attempt to match the speed of the scsi drive.

is this true ?

 

[Phatty106]

No

 

[Shooters]

Definitely not true. The SCSI bus is completely independent of the bus that IDE drives live on.

 

[bacillus]

let me repeat, that rumour is completely false! :Q

 

[Sundog]

Umm, nope.

 

[Noriaki]

Uhmmm...no....
That person was either
A) Very silly
B) Very inebriated
C) Joking with you

I know lots of people that use SCSI and IDE combo.
IDE for big cheap drives for stuff like MP3s, DivX's, and other "media" *cough*pr0n*cough*. And then you use fast SCSI drives for your OS, main programs, virtual memory and games if you have the space.

It's quite effective really. There is lots of stuff on your hard drive that gets no benefit whatsoever from SCSI so unless you have money to burn there is no point in putting it SCSI. On the other hand there is plenty of stuff that can make good use of SCSI. So having the dual setup is very good.

 

[randomlinh]

yeah, i need to find me a cheap 20GB scsi altho, my card is limited to scsi-2 50 pin.. prolly not much of a speed enhancement And getting a new card, and adapters for my cdrw and dvd would just make it cost too much to make it worth it

 

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