I run a bunch of Seagate 8TB SMR bought a few months after release, and the ZFS raidz2 pool has grown over the years. They are wonderful for write once/read ma

I run a bunch of Seagate 8TB SMR bought a few months after release, and the ZFS raidz2 pool has grown over the years. They are wonderful for write once/read many storage of large files. Due the the sheer number of drives the write speed isn’t a major concern as it can saturate the 20gbps Ethernet bond to the machine. Reads are the multi-GB/sec range though, so long as they are sequential. They would not be my first choice, but for specific uses like backups and media storage they are a good value.