> SMR has a terrible rep for a reason, and no one with any knowlege of what SMR is would buy which is why they have to be unethical by removing this spec from t

> SMR has a terrible rep for a reason, and no one with any knowlege of what SMR is would buy which is why they have to be unethical by removing this spec from the spec sheets I have a couple of 8 TB Seagate SMR drives i use for backup, and for that purpose they've been great. They're cheaper than PMR drives, and i honestly don't care if the backup takes an hour extra to complete. Unless you're in a business scenario, how much of your data on your x*8TB drives at home do you actually write to on a regular basis ? Half of mine is family photos, backups of clients, movie/music media, etc. For this purpose SMR also works well. I'm far more worried about power consumption for NAS drives than write performance.