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Why are they using SMR on small capacity drives? I thought the driving force behind SMR was for higher capacity? I know cheaper 8TB+ drives use SMR. Is it so t
by Osiris 7y ago
Why are they using SMR on small capacity drives? I thought the driving force behind SMR was for higher capacity? I know cheaper 8TB+ drives use SMR.
Is it so they can use fewer platters to get the same capacity, thus reducing the manufacturing cost of the drive? Or is there some other technical reason to do it on low capacity drives?