[plug] musing on HDD types

[William Kenworthy]

On 26/4/21 1:25 pm, Brad Campbell wrote:
> On 24/4/21 10:31 pm, Benjamin wrote:
>> don't go surveillance.
>
> Why not?
>
They are mostly CMR and relatively slow rpm but are optimised for
writing streaming data with little read optimisation - very specific
workload that is not suited to a chunkservers requirements (64Mb chunks
requiring multiple read random access after writing once.)

**WD spin but there are some nuggets :)
https://blog.westerndigital.com/5-things-to-look-for-surveillance-optimized-drive/

BillK