I like how my ‘I voted’ sticker has a bull majestically sharting out the stars from the city flag.

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/

not OP but the moon was to the Northwest around a heading of 300° and the moon is in this picture

i fry my chicken in petroleum oil