hmm so you are un-amused by un-necessary hyphens. i don’t un-derstand why.

i have had SMR drives slow to about 2MB/s with sustained sequential writes. “noticeably bad” really undersells how terrible they are.

the 3.5" barracuda disks are SMR. the barracuda pro disks are all CMR. https://www.seagate.com/products/cmr-smr-list/

I’m gonna say “a uniform” and u can’t stop me

americans carefully using imperial units instead of metric to waste time of the rest of the world

100kW can raise the temperature of 1L of water from 20C to 100C in 3.34 seconds. It’s enough power to brew about 300 shots of espresso in 30 seconds. That seems like a lot to me.