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Re:15TB HDDs: Western Digital Unveils the Ultrastar DC HC620 by londons_explore on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @01:21PM (#18339027)
I assume that the drive firmware remaps all your writes to make them sequential anyway for increased write performance.
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Re:15TB HDDs: Western Digital Unveils the Ultrastar DC HC620 by Hei1Fuya on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @02:15PM (#18339723)
For drive-managed SMR drives, yes, but these seem to be host-managed ones. So the filesystem has to be aware of the zones.
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Re:15TB HDDs: Western Digital Unveils the Ultrastar DC HC620 by HankB99 on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @03:42PM (#18340595)
> ... the filesystem has to be aware of the zones.

Does that mean the drives simply will not work with an unaware filesystem or that it will work but performance will be poor?

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Re:15TB HDDs: Western Digital Unveils the Ultrastar DC HC620 by gamegoblin on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @03:44PM (#18340616)
They will not work at all. You have to issue special commands to the drive to be able to overwrite zones.
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