The terrible sin was putting SMR (shingled magnetic recording) disks in drives sold as conventional magnetic recording. This may not be nearly at that level, bu

The terrible sin was putting SMR (shingled magnetic recording) disks in drives sold as conventional magnetic recording. This may not be nearly at that level, but it's concerning that the habit of mis-labeling drives continues. e.g. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wd-lists-all-drives-slower-smr-techNOLOGY https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wd-lists-all-drives-slower...