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I read parent as saying that trying to cut corners with SMR is even more stupid seeing that the HDD-market is becoming 'more enterprise' on average.
by wjnc 7y ago
I read parent as saying that trying to cut corners with SMR is even more stupid seeing that the HDD-market is becoming 'more enterprise' on average.
- wtallis 7y agoSMR drives have more of a place in the enterprise market than the consumer market, just like tape drives. Enterprise/datacenter customers tend to have a much better understanding of their workloads and are more able to determine when they have a use case for niche technologies. They also have a greater ability to deploy tiered storage with SSDs in front of hard drives to cover up the performance limitations.
- p1necone 7y agoYeah but they need to be told the drives are SMR to be able to make that decision.