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Just spitballing, but it's probably the size range where the difference between one and two physical platters is whether they use SMR or not. A cost-cutting mea
by akersten 7y ago
Just spitballing, but it's probably the size range where the difference between one and two physical platters is whether they use SMR or not. A cost-cutting measure.
- cure 7y agoThat sounds right. I got a WD60EFAX and a Seagate ST6000VN0033 a few months ago, and the WD is significantly lighter than the Seagate.
- Macha 7y agoBut also they've segmented away business users to Red Pro, Gold and Ultrastar drives for a few years, so I'd imagine sales of Reds today mostly fall in that range so more motivation to shave costs. With SSD pricing these days, <2TB hard drives just don't really make sense, but also I'm guessing very few home users need/want more than 8TB of storage.
- gowld 7y agoThere's a large market for "power" users who want high specs on paper but don't need them. The market response is to fake the specs or make compromising tradeoffs in lesser known specs. Often it works out fine and everyone is happy, but sometimes a bunch of customer use cases get broken.