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It looks like it was just the 1T black. Still... would have never suspected they would SMR in the black line. Truth be told.. it was the last think I expected
by heelix 7y ago
It looks like it was just the 1T black. Still... would have never suspected they would SMR in the black line. Truth be told.. it was the last think I expected in the red.
- jandrese 7y agoWhy you would buy a spinning rust drive that's only 1TB if you care about performance is a big mystery. 1TB is available in not overly expensive SSDs now. That is a drive with almost no use case. A quick search suggests it's about $100 cheaper than the SSD, but unless your budget is absolutely inflexible that extra $100 would be incredibly well spent on upgrading the drive. More so than almost any other place on the machine.
- heelix 7y agoI'd never consider buying one new - but I do have some 2-4TB blacks that I had for Steam. Funny how terribly unloved the old 15k 300G velociraptor sitting next to me - replaced by something costing about eight quality beers. Had I a stack of them, I would have considered the black line safe for home NAS. Apparently not, now that I know.
- jandrese 7y agoIf they're old drives they probably don't use SMR.