On 8/4/2020 11:21 AM, Mark Perkins wrote:
On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 03:25:25 -0400, Yousuf Khan
wrote:
That's exactly the point! Modern HDD designs are taking away their
random access features and replacing them with serial-access features.

That's crazy. Why would you say that?

What do you think SMR is? SMR requires a serial write pattern to
optimize its writing performance. If you try to write to an SMR drive in
a completely random way then performance drops 10x. HDD's are thus
becoming more serialized devices.

Yousuf Khan