The great thing is that it doesn&#x27;t use SMR. I have an 8TB SMR from Seagate and its write performance is bad and variable, much like the pre-TRIM SSDs. It&#x27;s ok if you write a lot of stuff and then just read it (you can get &gt;100MB&#x2F;s out of it), but I often see small random writes (updates) at 3-4 IOPS, because it has to re-shingle the whole track.