I always had high hopes for SSDs to come down in price enough to rival spinning rust, but it seems we’ve hit a wall around 4TB for the time being. If HAMR drives don’t turn out to be outrageously expensive, I’ll be spinning discs in my NAS for the foreseeable

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If you have an SMR drive ZFS resilvers can take upwards of three weeks haha

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Omg don’t remind me of the SMR fiasco. I once bought an SMR drive by accident and didn’t understand why overwriting lots of small files happened at like 5kbps…I couldn’t believe it when I found out!

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