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bombela
75 days ago
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Seagate: 'new' hard drives used for tens of thousa...
BTRFS can handle zoned disks. The doc claims that it was a natural fit with the way BTRFS works.
The problem is that you cannot buy host managed zoned disks.
rwmj
74 days ago
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WD was pushing for this standard a few years back:
https://www.westerndigital.com/company/innovation/zoned-stor...
I'm not sure what happened to it / whether it was successful or not.
Joe_Cool
74 days ago
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I think they also sold HA-SMR (host aware SMR, a mix of drive managed and host managed) drives to datacenters but I couldn't find any recent news so I guess those aren't that common.
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The problem is that you cannot buy host managed zoned disks.