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		rwmj on Dec 16, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Our 6 TB Hard Drive Face-Off I wonder if anyone has real world experience of Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) drives? I saw a talk by Red Hat's Ric Wheeler about a year ago, and they seem both interesting and pretty strange - as in, we may need new filesystems to cope with them.

brianwski on Dec 16, 2014 [–]

Backblaze employee here: we will run our first experiment with SMR soon! We're SUPER curious about whether they will work in our application.

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