Hi,
I was wondering what cost advantage do SMR drive provide as compared to
normal CMR drive?
8TB SMR drive - $ 260
3TB CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording drive) - $ 105
Is the 8TB SMR drive that you mentioned in another post on this mailing
list host or drive managed? I was curious to know
You can also find these drives inside the STDT8000100 external
USB unit for a bit more at $300.
It may or may not be the same. There are stories that it is difficult
or impossible to talk directly to the drives in recent USB units without
the usb-to-sata bridge. I have yet to find a
The HGST He8 HDDs completed its rebuild in 19 hours and 46 minutes. The
Seagate Archive HDDs completed their rebuild in 57 hours and 13 minutes
this is ... a feature. right?
Am 24.03.2015 um 18:05 schrieb Dale Kline:
READ THE DOCUMENTATION THOROUGHLY on these SMR drives. There are serious
I understand there to be three different types of SMR drives: Device managed,
Host aware and Host managed.
It is my belief that only 'Device managed' drives are shipping
which any file system can use, but the file system has no mechanisms to
leverage or control the drives behavior hence they
'host aware' or 'host managed' SMR drives open the real possibilities for
use
under ZFS and other file systems.
Agreed. Probably RAID is not the way to go then. In host managed SMR drives
one could use other form of resiliency (Erasure Codes) rather than RAID. We
do not rebuild the whole disk
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Shehbaz Jaffer
shehbazjaffer...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering what cost advantage do SMR drive provide as compared to
normal CMR drive?
8TB SMR drive - $ 260
3TB CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording drive) - $ 105
Purchase price is not irrelevant,
READ THE DOCUMENTATION THOROUGHLY on these SMR drives. There are serious
WRITE restrictions on these drives because of the overlapping (shingled)
tracks. I have read over several times and am still not sure of all of the
caveats. As Tom states below, they are to be used mainly in WRITE
On 24 Mar, InterNetX - Juergen Gotteswinter wrote:
The HGST He8 HDDs completed its rebuild in 19 hours and 46 minutes. The
Seagate Archive HDDs completed their rebuild in 57 hours and 13 minutes
this is ... a feature. right?
Looks like the HGST He8 drives cost about $600 though ...
The He10
