On 21 November 2017 at 10:07, Christian Balzer <chibi@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:00:28 +1100 Nigel Williams wrote: >> Is there something in the specifications that gives them away as SSHD? >> > The 550TB endurance per year for an 8TB drive and the claim of 30% faster > IOPS would be a dead giveaway, one thinks. I just found this other answer: http://products.wdc.com/library/other/2579-772003.pdf Hard-drive manufacturers introduced workload specifications because they better model failure rates than MTTF. I see the drive has 2MB of NOR-flash for write-caching, what happens when this wears out? _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com