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Shingled drives are probably more likely used in a RAID-10 scenario where you're not recalculating parity, but just rebuilding linearly. These drives (like the
by MPSimmons 12y ago
Shingled drives are probably more likely used in a RAID-10 scenario where you're not recalculating parity, but just rebuilding linearly.
These drives (like the Western Digital Purple) are used predominantly for archival data. You should never have to randomly write to, for instance, surveillance video, or similar streamed media.
This isn't for your SQL database server.
- mtanski 12y agoThis is pedantic, but unless the filesystem is build specifically for WORM devices you always end up with some non-sequential data. In the use cases you're describing they'll be some filesystem metadata (freemaps, directory entries, inode tables) that will need to be rewritten.