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Old April 24th 20, 11:46 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
David Lesher
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Default Don't get Shingled by SMR

Yousuf Khan writes:

On 4/23/2020 11:16 PM, wrote:
Hmmm, we had 4 TB CMR drives for a while until Helium arrived.
Why on earth are they making a 2 TB shingled drive? **** you WD, I am not paying
for Iron Wolf to avoid shingles.


Also if you want to avoid shingles, then you'd have to stay away from
Seagate Barracude Compute drives too. They go all of the way down to 1
TB as well.


update:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wd-lists-all-drives-slower-smr-techNOLOGY
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