Effect of using SATA 2.x and 3.x in zfs mirrored config
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2022 13:34:51 UTC
Hi all, I installed FreeBSD "root-on-zfs" using the installer on two new WD Blue 1TB SSDs (mirrored). Looking in dmesg, I see one of the drives is using SATA 3 (600MB/s transfer), and the other is using SATA 2 (300MB/s transfer). Will mixing SATA 2 and SATA 3 drives cause any technical issues? Is there any reason why I should use SATA 2 for both drives? The system was an enterprise castoff circa 2011 HP 6200 Pro Microtower (i7-2600 CPU). I naievely thought there were four identical SATA ports and plugged in the two SSDs, a rotating drive, and a DVD. However, looking now in the illustrated parts guide I see only one port is SATA 3. SATA0 1st hard drive (SATA 3.0) SATA1 2nd hard drive (SATA 2.0) SATA2 1st optical drive (SATA 2.0) ESATA eSATA connector From dmesg: ada0: <WDC WDS100T2B0A-00SM50 415020WD> ACS-4 ATA SATA 3.x device ada0: Serial Number 21401J801472 ada0: 600.000MB/s transfers (SATA 3.x, UDMA5, PIO 512bytes) ada0: 953869MB (1953525168 512 byte sectors) ada1: <WDC WDS100T2B0A-00SM50 415020WD> ACS-4 ATA SATA 3.x device ada1: Serial Number 214036801110 ada1: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA5, PIO 512bytes) ada1: 953869MB (1953525168 512 byte sectors) ada2 at ata2 bus 0 scbus2 target 0 lun 0 ada2: <ST31000322CS SC13> ATA8-ACS SATA 2.x device ada2: Serial Number 5VX2H84K ada2: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA5, PIO 8192bytes) ada2: 953869MB (1953525168 512 byte sectors) cd0 at ata0 bus 0 scbus0 target 1 lun 0 cd0: <hp DVD-RAM GH80N RF03> Removable CD-ROM SCSI device cd0: Serial Number 217CD060574 cd0: 150.000MB/s transfers (SATA 1.x, UDMA5, ATAPI 12bytes, PIO 8192bytes) cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present - tray c Thanks, Dale