On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 12:34:27PM +0100, BERTRAND Jol wrote: > > I refuse Seagate, Samsung and other WD in my servers or workstations, > and I refuse SMR technology also. >
I have heard this sort of thing from many people over the years, they get bitten by a few disk failures and form a bias based on that. I used to do this too but found that it seems to change from model to model. Here are some interesting stats from a large scale HDD deployment: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q2-2020/ Indeed, from these numbers, hitachi seem to be doing well overall but for the other manufacturers it really depends on the model you buy. As for SMR - it is not a big deal as long as you are aware of it (some manufacturers were caught out hiding the fact that a disk was SMR) and use the disk accordingly, there are some applications that SMR is particularly bad for - you don't want to use them for ZFS but for a NTFS/FFS file system they seem to be fine. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"
