Hi, Regarding which are SMR. Here is a good place to start: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/20/04/29/2119250/toshiba-publishes-full-list-of-its-drives-using-slower-smr-technology TOSHIBA: https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/ap-en/company/news/news-topics/2020/04/storage-20200428-1.html WD: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wd-lists-all-drives-slower-smr-techNOLOGY Seagate: https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/15/seagate-2-4-and-8tb-barracuda-and-desktop-hdd-smr/
It seems that drive manufactures were being a bit secretive about it, but they have all come clean now, documenting which HDD are SMR. Kind Regards James On Sat, 2 May 2020 at 16:57, Dr. Axel Stammler via GLLUG <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Tue 2020-04-28 16.10.42, Greater London Linux User Group wrote: > > >Next up, if your drives don't support SCTERC timeout facility then > >this is not ideal for a Linux RAID system but can be worked around > > Thanks. This is another great tip. Is there any way to find out if a drive > has that problem before buying it? > > Cheers, > > Axel > -- > GLLUG mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug -- GLLUG mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
