"Firm Seeks Class Action Suit Over WD’s SMR Hard Drives"
"Firm Seeks Class Action Suit Over WD’s SMR Hard Drives"
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wd...smr-hard-drive "Hattis & Lukacs, a class-action firm, has begun soliciting plaintiffs for a potential class-action lawsuit against hard drive maker Western Digital (WD) for not disclosing that several of its hard drives use slower, SMR technology." "We recently reported that Western Digital (WD) was shipping hard drives with SMR technology, a technology that boosts capacity but results in slower hard drives, without listing that fact in marketing materials and product specifications. Further scrutiny found that Toshiba and Seagate also engage in the practice, which obviously leaves the door open for litigation against those companies, too." "Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) involves overlapping recording tracks on a hard drive to boost capacity and reduce manufacturing costs, but it results in reduced performance in several types of workloads. For instance, ServeTheHome posted an article yesterday that outlined the performance compared to standard Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) drives, finding much slower speeds in several tasks." I had no idea. Lynn |
"Firm Seeks Class Action Suit Over WD’s SMR Hard Drives"
Lynn McGuire wrote:
"Firm Seeks Class Action Suit Over WD¢s SMR Hard Drives" https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wd...smr-hard-drive "Hattis & Lukacs, a class-action firm, has begun soliciting plaintiffs for a potential class-action lawsuit against hard drive maker Western Digital (WD) for not disclosing that several of its hard drives use slower, SMR technology." "We recently reported that Western Digital (WD) was shipping hard drives with SMR technology, a technology that boosts capacity but results in slower hard drives, without listing that fact in marketing materials and product specifications. Further scrutiny found that Toshiba and Seagate also engage in the practice, which obviously leaves the door open for litigation against those companies, too." "Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) involves overlapping recording tracks on a hard drive to boost capacity and reduce manufacturing costs, but it results in reduced performance in several types of workloads. For instance, ServeTheHome posted an article yesterday that outlined the performance compared to standard Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) drives, finding much slower speeds in several tasks." I had no idea. Lynn And when have you EVER got a hard drive that met its specifications in the first place? Like its rated read and write speeds? Marketing pukes out the "in theory under ideal (experimental) conditions" specs for their products, but you'll never achieve those specs in a real-world application. They don't even differentiate between momentary boost operation versus sustained operation. |
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