hi,
from the reading I've done there is that first conclusion - 
it may different a lot with each FS - people theorize. I 
wonder if anybody put them into practice.
I wondered if btrfs/xfs was any good, etx4 in current 
kernels does not support "packed_meta_blocks" yet. Some 
hands-on experience.
thanks


On 03/12/15 21:39, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 03:32:11PM +0000, lejeczek wrote:
>> I wonder if there is a user/admin who tried SMR drive and could
>> share his/her thoughts on them?
>>
> Did not try and will not try.
>
> All published reports indicate that write performance is erratic (and quite reduced
> compared to conventional storage), making them unsuitable to our main application
> of recording experiment data in near-real time.
>
> These SMR disks are marketed by Seagate as "archive" media, but because they
> are very new there is no failure statistics, and the failure modes are not well
> understood (if a spot of disk platter goes bad, do I lose just a few sectors, like
> on normal disks, or do I lose everything, like on a self-bricked SSD?). So does
> the reduces cost compensate for the added risk of data loss?
>
> You can also read the reviews at newegg and elsewhere.
>
> K.O.
>
> P.S. FUD check:
> Fear - check,
> Uncertainty - check,
> Deception - hopefully not.
>