[plug] musing on HDD types

[Benjamin]

Yep, basically that.

For what it's worth it's not exactly 64MiB, moose uses 8KiB sectors that
happen to be stored in 64MiB chunks


On Mon, 26 Apr 2021, 13:38 William Kenworthy, <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:

>
> 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
>
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