Running both SCSI and IDE hard drives -- Any Problems?

[Patenter]

I've just added a new 80 GB Western Digital IDE hard drive ($90) to my P4 Dell Workstation 340 that also includes a 18GB (boot) and 73GB Ultra160 SCSI hard drives. The IDE drive will only be used for storing video and other image data files. Seems to be working fine so far.

I would like to go ahead and add more inexpensive IDE drives for the same purpose, however, the manual only talks about a SCSI-based or an IDE-based hard-drive arrangements, but not a combination of the two.

Is there anything I should be watching out for or maybe concerned with by combining SCSI and IDE drives?

Also, I'm not currently running IDE or SCSI RAID, but might want to some day -- any problems/advice?

 

[ojai00]

Welcome! Where'd you get that drive for $90? You should be fine running both, but just make sure that you have enough power to support the drives, and enough cooling to keep the drives cool.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Ive got SCSI (low end) and IDE mixtures on two of my machines, no problems have been had.

 

[BD231]

Heat, but thats about it. You can add as many IDE drives as you want provided you have enough ATA cards and room in your computer. Dont bother with RAID, with IDE its useless for the most part.

 

[Patenter]

Thanks for the advice --- I happened upon the 80GB WD hard drive at Comp USA (w/ rebate), it's 5400 RPM but I couldn't pass it up for that price.

I've been worried about heat since the case is mid-tower size and completely full now, especially when I'm burning DVDs with my A03 burner. Thus, in a posting on the motherboard section I've asked for more good advice about moving everything to a full tower case, such as, a Cooler Master ATC-201-SX or something similar.