Picking the Right Drive

The only thing you should watch for is the SMR technology, which trades speed for capacity/price. SMR drives are not recommended for storage nodes, though some people got them to work with careful configuration. See e.g. this thread: PSA: Beware of HDD manufacturers submarining SMR technology in HDD's without any public mention

As far as I know, currently all commercially available 2.5" drives bigger than 1TB are SMR.

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