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They should just sell PMR drives, with an option to enable SMR mode for extra capacity.
by p1mrx 7y ago
They should just sell PMR drives, with an option to enable SMR mode for extra capacity.
- marcan_42 7y agoNot possible. Modern drives require precision external equipment to write the servo markers, you can't "low level format" a modern drive and haven't been able to for about two decades. Changing from SMR to PMR would require rewriting the servo tracks for the different density.