Though as a consumer it was easy to buy an optane card.
Not the dimms as much but those had horrible prices per gig, and SMR is supposedly a way to save money.
> Where you, as a consumer, can get them - don't. I don't think they're meant to be used by consumers. You're gonna have a bad time unless you write software specific to this weird type of drive. What you might find out there is some kind of a storage 'consumer NAS in a box' product that has tiered storage inside, with these drives and other ones. But stay away from drives on their own w/o that special software in front.
That would be a reasonable statement if they weren't selling SMR drives to customers without even labeling them as such. Just raw drives that sometimes have the performance go to hell. If you wanted fast you should have gotten an SSD, I guess.
It's not that I can't easily get an SMR drive, it's that I can't get the bigger models and I can't get the price savings.
Not the dimms as much but those had horrible prices per gig, and SMR is supposedly a way to save money.
> Where you, as a consumer, can get them - don't. I don't think they're meant to be used by consumers. You're gonna have a bad time unless you write software specific to this weird type of drive. What you might find out there is some kind of a storage 'consumer NAS in a box' product that has tiered storage inside, with these drives and other ones. But stay away from drives on their own w/o that special software in front.
That would be a reasonable statement if they weren't selling SMR drives to customers without even labeling them as such. Just raw drives that sometimes have the performance go to hell. If you wanted fast you should have gotten an SSD, I guess.
It's not that I can't easily get an SMR drive, it's that I can't get the bigger models and I can't get the price savings.