SMR Hard Drive Testing - RAID Rebuild and File Transfer
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This video showcases the test results of SMR hard drives when used as single disk, in a RAID array (Linux MDRAID/MDADM RAID, ZFS, Hardware RAID), or with a pooled solution (UnRAID, SnapRAID)
You can view this info in my blog: https://htwingnut.com/2023/07/01/smr-...
Or on Reddit:
0:00 Intro
1:45 Test Disks and Test Setup
8:40 What is SMR?
23:12 Test Process Explanation
25:54 Test Results - Baseline
28:20 Test Results - Mixed File Size WRITE
31:05 Test Results - Mixed File Size READ
32:18 Test Results - 1GB alternating
34:15 Test Results - REBUILD Times
40:43 Test Results - TRIM
45:40 Test Results - % Difference
52:42 SUMMARY