I just wanted to add that SMR drives' performance is a bit more nuanced than you described. In most SMR drives, there is a PMR portion allocated as a cache. I'v

I just wanted to add that SMR drives' performance is a bit more nuanced than you described. In most SMR drives, there is a PMR portion allocated as a cache. I've read the cache is usually in the range of 20-50G, depending on the size of the drive, but I'd love to know how accurate that is. So write performance is generally pretty good until you saturate that cache. Then, as you said, it becomes pretty atrocious.