PSA: Beware of HDD manufacturers submarining SMR technology in HDD's without any public mention

[andrew2.hart]

Post pictures of your storagenode rig(s)

[IMG_20200728_063819] My latest arrangement has 2 x 12TB wd elements external 3.5" drives driven by raspberry pi 4 4GB I went back to 32 bit raspian for this experiment. This is 25W measured at the wall so 1W/TB .The SSD. and NVMe setup above somewhere were more like 4W/TB.

and yes I have 5 storagenodes in there currently
edited above to change smr