SMR Hard Drives have very different rules about how you should access them vs conventional hard drives or SSDs. I wonder how much optimizing for SMR drives (Big sequential writes) would also optimize for other drive types.

I feel fooled after clicking on the link and seeing that this PDF is downloading (or just literally writing to my SSD) until I realized that this is the point

this is the kind of research that creates new db types, or super optimized postgres im not sure yet