SMR drives really aren't intended at all for single drive applications. Get 512 of them in a giant pool (especially if it's SMR aware) and the throughput issue

SMR drives really aren't intended at all for single drive applications. Get 512 of them in a giant pool (especially if it's SMR aware) and the throughput issues start to be less of a concern for certain applications. Anything write intensive of course means you immediately look elsewhere.