Hi,
On 12 Aug 14:41, Mark Rogers wrote:
On 11 August 2016 at 19:17, Jonathan McDowell noodles@earth.li wrote:
It's a shingled drive, which means random writes are going to seriously suck but large sequential writes should be ok, as should reads.
Interesting, thanks for that.
Yup - that's exactly our experience with those archive drives.
No, it's not a suitable drive for a VM workload. It's a suitable drive for throwing large amounts of data on which is then going to be read lots, or rarely touched again.
The VM is now back on SSD where it belongs, so from the sound of it I just have to accept that high capacity (at least in this case) comes with a performance hit and live with it?
If so I'll be selective about what I store on it but otherwise just suck it up!
Not all high capacity drives are shingled. There are now WD Red drives of the 8T variety. They are Much More Expensive. (I have 2, along with a pair of 6T drives and 4T drives).
Thanks,