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Date:      Fri, 27 Mar 2015 09:36:38 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net>
To:        Igor Mozolevsky <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk>
Cc:        Hackers freeBSD <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Seagate Archive HDD
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.1503270936080.719@laptop.wojtek.intra>
In-Reply-To: <CADWvR2jCP0UT4DLWsfwwJ6qoBauDmuBDdHAfeMpfJPGNSB3-cw@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.1503261124380.1417@laptop.wojtek.intra> <CADWvR2jCP0UT4DLWsfwwJ6qoBauDmuBDdHAfeMpfJPGNSB3-cw@mail.gmail.com>

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> I suspect so, but the drives are designed to be used as "tape-on-disk" backup (hence "archive"), i. e. long sequential writes. Using
> these drives for anything else seems as insane as using the "video recording"-grade drives for data, in my opinion?

what is a difference between "video recording" and normal SATA drives? 
except pricing of course.



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