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"Why I Will Never Buy a Hard Drive Again"
On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 03:36:08 -0400, Paul wrote:
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 "Its 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. PMR is still used to sell "premium" products, and a Google search is likely to find units using PMR. The marketing department knows the value of PMR, and "leaks" the info to bump sales. https://www.kitguru.net/components/h...rive-review/2/ On some lesser products of unknown parentage, you're forced to use deductive reasoning. If you see a 4TB drive in a 0.8" high enclosure, with what seems like two 2TB platters (datasheet doesn't list platters), then you can kinda guess it's SMR. SMR caching is now better than it was. https://forums.anandtech.com/threads...tters.2525313/ You even have to be careful now, with your HDTune usage. Do test runs in both Win7 and Win10 and compare, before publishing. As a recent Win10 release seems to be pulling the rug out from underneath HDTune 2.55. When attempting to identify PMR versus SMR, you can't let yourself be distracted by Windows 10 behaviors. Interesting, thanks. I guess I'm not the only one thinking it's best to avoid SMR for everyday general use, although if I'm reading correctly, SMR isn't as much of a dog now as it was when it was introduced. They've probably figured out and optimized the caching algorithm. |
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