Re: Seagate ST6000DM003-2CY186 "flapping". Disconnecting and reconnecting randomly.

Reply: Alexander Burke : "Re: Seagate ST6000DM003-2CY186 "flapping". Disconnecting and reconnecting randomly."
In reply to: Wojciech Puchar : "Re: Seagate ST6000DM003-2CY186 "flapping". Disconnecting and reconnecting randomly."
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From: David Christensen <dpchrist_at_holgerdanske.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:44:03 UTC

On 8/12/26 10:39, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> SMR drives are incompatible with ZFS (and I personally recommend 
>> against using them for any purpose whatsoever).
> they are fine for backups for me

I have been pondering using SMR drives for backups.  Are you using SMR 
drives individually, or in RAID?  How do you partition the SMR drives? 
What volume manager and/or file system do you put in the partition(s)? 
How do you perform backups?

David