Friendly greetings !
i remember an interesting talk from seagate at pgcon2015 about SMR disk
technology, and i use them for archive & backup (personal usage).
However, the highest capacity on the seagate archive product line (the one
using SMR) is 8TB.
Seagate have a 8TB ironwolf product at roughly the same price.
And a 12TB ironwolf, much more expensive since it's new, but 12TB
nonetheless.
But their SMR disk are still maxed at 8TB.
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'm confused ...
Thank you :)
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Laurent "ker2x" Laborde