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   Xeon² (izaya@social.shadowkat.net)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 18:27:08 JST Xeon²
   I think it's cool that I can blkdiscard SMR HDDs
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 18:27:07 JST 翠星石

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     @izaya It's a necessity if you don't want the drive to slow down to 1MiB/sec once you fill it up.
     
     Too bad blkdiscard doesn't work over usb.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 18:28:37 JST 翠星石

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     @izaya No filesystems work nicely on SMR HDDs in my experience.
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     Xeon² (izaya@social.shadowkat.net)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 18:28:38 JST Xeon²

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     @Suiseiseki btrfs works quite nicely on SMR HDDs if you tell it it's actually an SSD
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 18:43:16 JST 翠星石

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     @izaya It's not about giving more capacity for cheaper - it's about offering the same capacity and price as before, except at a lower cost for them, for a massive speed penalty.
     
     The largest HDD's do not use SMR after all.
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     Xeon² (izaya@social.shadowkat.net)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 18:43:18 JST Xeon²

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     @Suiseiseki Been using btrfs on an SMR HDD for like two or three years now :akko_shrug:
     it's ... fine? if they can give me more capacity for cheaper I'm okay with that
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 18:50:33 JST 翠星石

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     @izaya I like to do the write pattern of "write a 50GB or 100GB file to disk" without having the drive slow down to 1MiB/s after the first ~20GiB personally.
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     Xeon² (izaya@social.shadowkat.net)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 18:50:34 JST Xeon²

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     @Suiseiseki > massive speed penalty
     skill issue, just write in patterns they like