Support for shingled magnetic recording devices

Posted Mar 27, 2014 14:30 UTC (Thu) by jake (editor, #205)
In reply to: Support for shingled magnetic recording devices by fuhchee
Parent article: Support for shingled magnetic recording devices

The short answer is storage density. There is a bit more in the article from last year's summit linked here: https://lwn.net/Articles/548116/ (scroll down a ways).

I should probably have said a bit more here, sorry!

jake