On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 09:26:07AM -0400, Eben King wrote: > > > On 3/2/25 14:35, David Christensen wrote:
[...] > > AIUI SMR does not work well for OS [...] > ?MR=Shielded / Conventional Magnetic Recording? How do I tell a priori > which drives are SMR and which are CMR? Shingled magnetic recording [1]. You gain write density at the cost of randomness of writes. Cheers [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingled_magnetic_recording -- t
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