Ideas for supporting shingled magnetic recording (SMR)
Ideas for supporting shingled magnetic recording (SMR)
Posted Apr 12, 2014 11:03 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: Ideas for supporting shingled magnetic recording (SMR) by weue
Parent article: Ideas for supporting shingled magnetic recording (SMR)
They only “have to work without drivers on existing installations” if they are to be sold as a replacement for traditional drives. If they are sold as some kind of enterprise tool then drivers are just fine and they can even provide megabytes of these on “normal” side (AFAIK currently plan is to provide small slice of “normal-style” access and large slice of “dense” one on the same platter).
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