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A comment on Western Digital Lawsuit for Shipping Slower SMR Hard Drives Including WD Red NAS. Parent comment

Re:Western Digital Lawsuit for Shipping Slower SMR Hard Driv... by rini17 on Friday May 29, 2020 @05:44AM (#23348066)
If it is software raid (like ZFS or Btrfs), the writes are random. Plus, it's not clear SMR can be made to accept heavy write load even when the load was predictable.
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