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A comment on Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016. Parent comment

Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016 by throwawayish on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @05:22PM (#13535881)
More importantly: shingled recording slows things down as well.
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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016 by bluedino on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @07:24PM (#13536896)
Just deleting/re-writing, yes? I remember reading they were good for storage situations where you just fill the drive with writes and pretty much just read from it for life
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