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
> > >
> >
> >
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