Re: Problems with SMR hard drives

[Stanislav Vlasov <stanislav.v.v@gmail.com>]

ср, 24 сент. 2025 г. в 16:46, Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>:

> I mean, if some hard drives are unusable with RAID, at some point the
> authors of the kernel will implement work-arounds to make them work
> anyway, and the manufacturers will tweak their firmwares to avoid
> cutting themselves from the server market.

> So, does anybody here have up-to-date and reliable information about
> this issue of SMR hard drives?

Nothing changed.

> If I will use the kernel of Debian Trixie or more recent, do I still
> need to worry about SMR drives, or will they just work?

They just work as a single and sometimes slow disk.

> And more to the point: do you have specific models to recommend?

For real raids (mdadm is real) — not recommended. You may try snapraid
for parity and recovery.
It will work but it is not a raid because it is a backup solution.

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Stanislav