Re: Problems with SMR hard drives
Hello Nicolas,
I am not at all knowledgeable on theses subjects.
From a quick research, it seems that SMR technology is already
not-so-new, and can be found among others technologies on the market.
Some workarounds seem to still be developed (search SMR on github) and
Seagate indicates it is developing a solution for the ext4 filesystem:
https://events.static.linuxfound.org/sites/events/files/slides/SMR%20in%20Linux%20Systems%20-%20Vault.pdf
The underlying technology used by manufacturers of HDD is not always
known but Seagate has a list about its different lines of products:
https://www.seagate.com/products/cmr-smr-list/
for a broader scope, I don't know if this website is reliable but it do
has a list of HDD, informing of their type (CMR, SMR):
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/attachments/hdd-list-cmr-smr-pdf.364987/
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