This box I'm sending the mail from has 4 IDE hard drives, a CD-ROM, and an IDE DVD...6 devices on 4 channels. I also have a dual SCSI controller in it, with a CD burner on one channel and 3 SCSI drives on the other. Basically, mixing doesn't matter to Linux at all...the only time you'll have an issue is when you use both buses at once and expect SCSI performance. :-) I find that IDE-to-IDE copies or SCSI-to-SCSI copies work better than SCSI-to-IDE or vice versa, but really it isn't that big a deal unless you have REALLY fast (i.e. 15000 RPM) SCSI drives and sloooooow IDE drives. The difference is not as great as you would expect from historical comparisons. Unless you're getting into RAID or other exotic things, it doesn't matter much, and even then if you mix intelligently it's fine. Put your swap on really fast drives, store your mp3's on really slow, really big, really CHEAP IDE drives. :-)
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