On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 5:40 PM antlists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: > > On 22/05/2020 19:23, Rich Freeman wrote: > > A big problem with drive-managed SMR is that it basically has to > > assume the OS is dumb, which means most writes are in-place with no > > trims, assuming the drive even supports trim. > > I think the problem with the current WD Reds is, in part, that the ATA-4 > spec is required to support trim, but the ATA-3 spec is the current > version. Whoops ... >
Probably was thought up by the same genius who added the 3.3V reset pin to the SATA standard. -- Rich
