Seagate Archive HDD

[Alan Somers]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hm, what's required to get the stripe size for doing IO or whatever
> the under-the-hood thing is for the Sharding?
>
> -a

My understanding is that it's impossible; the drive-managed SMR drives
present themselves as ordinary disks.  But, if their design is similar
to the upcoming host-aware SMR drives, then the band size will be on
the order of a few hundred megabytes.

-Alan