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by rzzzt 2483 days ago
Drive-managed SMR looks OK to me for general use, although I don't have hands-on experience with it. They also have a non-shingled region that can accept random I/O at higher speeds, and the drive deals with moving data to a linear-only region once it fills up, or at garbage collection time.

It's very much like the QLC drives where a portion is treated as SLC/MLC.
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loeg 2483 days ago
It's like the QLC drives with SLC/MLC cache (e.g., Intel 660p) except the performance cliff is far, far worse (and obviously the "fast" mode is far worse as well).
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josefbacik 2483 days ago
Agreed, drive managed is far better from a usability standpoint.
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