Friendly greetings ! i remember an interesting talk from seagate at pgcon2015 about SMR disk technology, and i use them for archive & backup (personal usage).
However, the highest capacity on the seagate archive product line (the one using SMR) is 8TB. Seagate have a 8TB ironwolf product at roughly the same price. And a 12TB ironwolf, much more expensive since it's new, but 12TB nonetheless. But their SMR disk are still maxed at 8TB. What's the point of the seagate archive now ? Ironwolf, for the same public price, have better performance (obviously) and, more surprising, a better MTBF. I'm confused ... Thank you :) -- Laurent "ker2x" Laborde
