Re: Seagate ST6000DM003-2CY186 "flapping". Disconnecting and reconnecting randomly.
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 05:33:58 UTC
> I have been pondering using SMR drives Don't. ---------------------------------------- 2026-08-12T23:44:36Z David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>: > 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