Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 08:56:50 +0000 From: Igor Mozolevsky <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net> Cc: Hackers freeBSD <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Seagate Archive HDD Message-ID: <CADWvR2g8_PBmGXPF0nMctsJ2RxWvPwYKV9PHVru5qwdk9UcE4w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1503270936080.719@laptop.wojtek.intra> References: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1503261124380.1417@laptop.wojtek.intra> <CADWvR2jCP0UT4DLWsfwwJ6qoBauDmuBDdHAfeMpfJPGNSB3-cw@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1503270936080.719@laptop.wojtek.intra>
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On 27 March 2015 at 08:36, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net> wrote: > >> >> 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. > The "video recording" HDDs have no, among other things, internal "long recovery" mechanisms (hence the price) because unlike "data", "video" doesn't really care if small part of a frame gets corrupted on disk=E2=80= =A6 --=20 Igor M.
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