On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 09:26:07AM -0400, Eben King wrote:
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> On 3/2/25 14:35, David Christensen wrote:

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> > 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
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