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All Manufacturers are Shipping Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) Disks to Consumers


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All - Western Digital, Seagate, and Toshiba - are shipping disks employing Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology to consumers. Placing SMR disks in RAID with conventional disks can cause problems (see links below).

 

LINK Western Digital, Seagate Are Shipping Slow SMR Drives Without Informing Customers: Reports [updated] - ExtremeTech

 

LINK Western Digital Comes Clean, Shares Which Hard Drives Use SMR - ExtremeTech

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All - Western Digital, Seagate, and Toshiba - are shipping disks employing Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology to consumers. Placing SMR disks in RAID with conventional disks can cause problems (see links below).

 

LINK Western Digital, Seagate Are Shipping Slow SMR Drives Without Informing Customers: Reports [updated] - ExtremeTech

 

LINK Western Digital Comes Clean, Shares Which Hard Drives Use SMR - ExtremeTech

 

How is reliabilty as opposed to earlier version HDD?

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What sizes of disk include shingled technology - anyone know? Does it only start with > 2TB drives, or has it been filtered down to all capacities?

 

Does it also apply to video 'surveillance' spec (24/7) drives?

 

If you read the link in my first post, all your questions will be answered - at least for Western Digital drives.

 

The link in my second post elaborates.

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Here is an article with a list of Toshiba SMR hard drives:

 

LINK: Toshiba Outs its List of Hard Drives With Slower SMR Technology | Tom's Hardware

Thanks. I found the list in your link after I posted. Shouldn't have been so lazy!

 

I can't see any mention of their video surveillance drives though, which I've found to work just fine in a desktop PC.

 

I'm wondering if defragging a shingled drive works the same as on separate cylinder drives, in that it restores performance. Or maybe it's not a good idea if the OS isn't SMR aware?

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