Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate
JordanZ@lemmy.world 2 days agoThat’s fine…they don’t need to release it under their Exos line of enterprise drives. SMR don’t do well in raid arrays especially not highly utilized ones. They require idle time to cleanup and the rebuild times are horrendous.
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
There are a number of enterprise storage systems optimized specifically for SMR drives. This is targeting actual data centers, not us humble homelabbers masquerading as enterprises.
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 2 days ago
LMAO!!