[clug] Anyone using Seagate SMR dives [6GB & 8GB, 3.5" 'Archive']??

[Brett Worth]

On 12/11/15 14:22, steve jenkin wrote:
> MSY had Seagate 3.5” Archive drives listed when I looked at the Price List today [don’t often check].
>
> Anyone got any Real World experience of them

I added one of the 8TB versions to my file server at home last week. $328 from MSY. I've 
sync'd 2.2TB to it and it hasn't exploded yet.  It doesn't write very fast but I just need 
it for backups anyway. (zfs)

# dd if=/dev/zero of=2G.c bs=8192k count=250 conv=fsync
250+0 records in
250+0 records out
2097152000 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 63.8292 s, 32.9 MB/s


Brett


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