Comment Comment by csdvrx For long term storage, prefer hard drives (careful about CMR vs SMR)If you have specific random IO high performance needs, you can either- get a SLC drive like https://news.solidigm.com/en-WW/230095-introducing-the-solid...- make one yourself by hacking the firmware: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40405578Be careful when you use something "exotic", and do not trust drives that are too recent to be fully tested: I learned my lesson for M2 2230 drives https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/17pztue/warning_you_ma... which seems validated by the large numbers of similar experiences like https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/discussions/14793 parent csdvrx 1 year ago
If you have specific random IO high performance needs, you can either
- get a SLC drive like https://news.solidigm.com/en-WW/230095-introducing-the-solid...
- make one yourself by hacking the firmware: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40405578
Be careful when you use something "exotic", and do not trust drives that are too recent to be fully tested: I learned my lesson for M2 2230 drives https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/17pztue/warning_you_ma... which seems validated by the large numbers of similar experiences like https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/discussions/14793