Re: pgcon2015, what happened to SMR disk technolgy ?

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin(at)geoff(dot)dj> wrote:

> On 17 October 2017 at 11:59, Laurent Laborde <kerdezixe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> What's the point of the seagate archive now ?
>> Ironwolf, for the same public price, have better performance (obviously)
>> and, more surprising, a better MTBF.
>>
>
> ​I have no real insight into whether Seagate are still pursuing the
> product design, but I'm not really surprised that the MTBF is worse: if the
> shingled disk must write some tracks twice for each individual track write,
> it seems logical that there will be more write stress and therefore
> shortened lifespan, no?
>

I contacted seagate and just got a reply : they don't have strategic
information to share about SMR technology at the moment.
I guess i saw it coming ^^

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Laurent "ker2x" Laborde