On 8/12/2018 12:58 AM, Mark Perkins wrote:
On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 20:37:01 -0500, Lynn McGuire
wrote:

"Why I Will Never Buy a Hard Drive Again"

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ch...ves,37563.html

"It’s been years since I was willing to work on any PC that boots from a
mechanical hard drive. Once you get used to the snappy response times
and speedier gameload times of an SSD, going back to a hard drive feels
like computing through a thick layer of molasses."

Lynn

If you were buying a 'large' drive now, what would you buy? SMR seems
like something to be avoided, so if I want a drive in the 8-10-12+
range, what's available?

Not just asking Lynn, anyone can chime in.

I buy 8 TB WD externals for backups drives for our LAN. We have three
spinning and seven externals. I replace one external drive every six
months and archive the old one. It may be time to jump to the 10 TB,
our LAN backup is now 4 TB.

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-...dp/B01LQQHLGC/

Lynn