Re:Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move
by fc417fc802 on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @04:46AM
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> the problem is just that NAS software needs to be made compatible with SMR drives
That's half of it ... maybe? Last time I looked drives that offer host managed SMR still weren't available to regular consumers. In theory that plus a compatible filesystem would work flawlessly. In practice you can't even buy the relevant hardware.
That's half of it ... maybe? Last time I looked drives that offer host managed SMR still weren't available to regular consumers. In theory that plus a compatible filesystem would work flawlessly. In practice you can't even buy the relevant hardware.