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Step one: Firmware update on the respective drives.

`hdparm --fwdownload xxxxxxxxxx.bin --yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing --please-destroy-my-drive /dev/sdb`

What could possibly go wrong?
(Spoiler: It succeeded for all drives so far)

Like 23 Dec 2024 at 21:04 | Open on social.anoxinon.de

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jon ⚝

@Codeberg
Would the updates also work through fwupd?

23 Dec 2024 at 21:35 | Open on degrowth.social

@Codeberg wow you weren’t kidding: https://github.com/Seagate/SMR_FS-EXT4/blob/f9d8081041ed5ea14de395abef921317f5d4e9c5/hdparm/hdparm.c#L951

23 Dec 2024 at 22:12 | Open on infosec.exchange

The hot phase (moving data across servers) has started now. Please be prepared for performance degradation during this time.

23 Dec 2024 at 23:19 | Open on social.anoxinon.de

The positive side-effect is that we have plenty of storage now.

(The numbers are slightly blowed up, because we temporarily had to add more disks than strictly necessary for the migration to succeed. They will be repurposed afterwards.)

A pie chart that visualizes the storage uses. A blue bar is filled to about one quarter.

The stats read:

25.96% of 70.4 TB
Used: 18.3 TB

23 Dec 2024 at 23:21 | Open on social.anoxinon.de