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While spinning rust was destined to lose the majority of the market to flash, I think the hard disk companies accelerated the move with the SMR fiasco. It got
by blihp 3y ago
While spinning rust was destined to lose the majority of the market to flash, I think the hard disk companies accelerated the move with the SMR fiasco. It got me moving more things to SSDs sooner than I had planned.
- rbanffy 3y agoI have noticed fewer and fewer SMR drives at top capacities lately, but they would be useful for read-dominated workloads provided the ingestion speeds are managed properly (I read somewhere they can be managed at a very low level where you’d be able to write directly to the SMR area for things like replacing a failed RAID unit, where you can write the SMR area at once)