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Old June 12th 18, 08:12 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Charlie Hoffpauir
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Default Unreally Lucky HDD

On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 13:41:21 -0400, Larc
wrote:

On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 03:23:01 -0400, Paul wrote:

| There are some shingled Seagates for sale now,
| and you definitely don't want to buy those.
|
| The trick is to find a datasheet with a platter
| count. If the platter count is too low, that's
| a shingled drive. I think you might be able to
| get 2TB on one platter that way. One of the
| other hints, is the shingled drives ship in a
| 0.8" high housing, rather than a regular 1.0"
| high housing.
|
| I don't know if WDC has done this yet or not.

I assume not since all the WD 3.5" internal HDDs are 1.028" high.

Larc

Thanks for this thread! I had not heard of "shingled" drives, ao I
googled it and got the explanation. Seems my 4.0 TB Seagate that I use
for backing up all my data is shingled (based on the fact that it
appears to be about 2/3 the thickness of a normal HDD). So far I
haven't had any problem with it. But if it suddenly craters, I'll have
lost about half my backups.(The other half is split between a 3 TB and
a 1.5 TB drive).