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A rebuild is not a random write workload and is written in big chunks so they should hold up still.
by jojobas 7y ago
A rebuild is not a random write workload and is written in big chunks so they should hold up still.
- NickNameNick 7y agoExcept they don't, because apparently SMR is slower to write than conventional recording, so the device buffers writes to conventional tracks, then uses idle-time to re-write the buffered data to SMR tracks. But during a re-build there is no idle time...