ultimitchow@sh.itjust.workstoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Does the form factor between 3.5" and 2.5" matter in a NAS server?English
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7 months agothe 3.5" barracuda disks are SMR. the barracuda pro disks are all CMR. https://www.seagate.com/products/cmr-smr-list/
i have had SMR drives slow to about 2MB/s with sustained sequential writes. “noticeably bad” really undersells how terrible they are.