Paul wrote:
Wolf K wrote:

Why can't a 10TB HDD be configured the same way?

One of the commenters at the end of that Gizmodo
article, points out the difference.

http://gizmodo.com/sadly-this-10tb-h...not-1691245306


"There are three ways to implement SMR data management.

HGST uses host managed, which is perfect as they're targeting
hyperscale with these drives.

Seagate uses drive managed, which works with any OS/file system.
Seagate is going for more wide reaching market penetration where
HGST is focused on top 5-10 guys only.

Incidentally, that large hyperscale market doesn't have a problem
with modifying their stack to accommodate SMR.
"

So it's a conscious design decision, to "let the user"
write the handler. In the case of the HGST product.

Paul