HDD Check

[Harrisonm65]

Hi all

With all the SMR shenanigans going on of late, I just wanted to check that the Seagate Ironwolf ST4000VN008 drives were OK before splashing out on 4.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Samuel Tai]

List of known SMR drives

Hard drives that write data in overlapping, "shingled" tracks, have greater areal density than ones that do not. For cost and capacity reasons, manufacturers are increasingly moving to SMR, Shingled Magnetic Recording. SMR is a form of PMR...

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