For what it's worth the continued reporting on Blocks & Files at least left me with a better impression of Toshiba than the competition with respect to owning u

For what it's worth the continued reporting on Blocks & Files at least left me with a better impression of Toshiba than the competition with respect to owning up to it. When we asked Seagate about the Barracudas and the Desktop HDD using SMR technology, a spokesperson told us: “I confirm all four products listed use SMR technology.” In a follow-up question, we asked why isn’t this information is not explicit in Seagate’s brochures, data sheets and product manuals – as it is for Exos and Archive disk drives? Seagate’s spokesperson said: “We provide technical information consistent with the positioning and intended workload for each drive.” ( 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... ) Whereas Toshiba's representative at least cooperated and did not just spout further delusional corporate doublespeak when questioned about the lying. Blocks & Files asked Toshiba to confirm that the 4TB and 6TB P300 desktop drives use SMR and clarify which drives in its portfolio use SMR. A company spokesperson told us: “The Toshiba P300 Desktop PC Hard Drive Series includes the P300 4TB and 6TB, which utilise the drive-managed SMR (the base drives are DT02 generation 3.5-inch SMR desktop HDD). “Models based on our MQ04 2.5-inch mobile generation all utilise drive-managed SMR, and include the L200 Laptop PC Hard Drive Series, 9.5mm 2TB and 7mm 1TB branded models. “Models based on our DT02 3.5-inch desktop generation all utilise drive managed SMR, and include the 4/6TB models of the P300 Series branded consumer drives.” The company also told us which other desktop drives did and did not use SMR: MD07ACA – 7,200rm 12TB, 14TB CMR (base of X300 Performance Hard Drive Series branded models MD04 – 7,200rpm – 2, 4, 5, 6TB CMR (base for X300 Performance Hard Drive Series branded models DT02 – 5,400rpm – 4, 6 TB SMR (base for P300 Desktop PC Hard Drive Series 4TB and 6TB branded models) DT01 – 7, 200rpm – 500GB, 1,2,3 TB CMR (base for P300 Desktop PC Hard Drive Series 1/2/3TB branded models) ( https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/16/toshiba-desktop-disk-drives-undocumented-shingle-magnetic-recording/ https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/16/toshiba-desktop-disk-d... ) And while the use of inferior technology should certainly have been announced in all these cases, watering down the product seems slightly less unforgivable for the class of slow Desktop brand drives, in my perception, as the expectations there shouldn't clash quite as badly with the performance issues.