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>and now, it looks like they are slowly getting back on track. The smartmontools ticket linked in the article says that Seagate is doing the same thing. Best t
by mixedCase 7y ago
>and now, it looks like they are slowly getting back on track.
The smartmontools ticket linked in the article says that Seagate is doing the same thing. Best to avoid.
- jlgaddis 7y agoIndeed. According to a newer article [0] on the same web site: > Some Seagate Barracuda Compute and Desktop disk drives use shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology which can exhibit slow data write speeds. But Seagate documentation does not spell this out. --- [0]: https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/15/seagate-2-4-and-8tb-barracuda-and-desktop-hdd-smr/ https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/15/seagate-2-4-and-8tb-ba...