The new SMR P300 drives are 7200RPM high spin models and feature a 6Gbit/s SATA interface for easy connectivity. The SMR P300 hard drives will be available in 3Q 2022, and no price has been ...

Anyone who has tried to find the best hard drives at massive sizes has likely come across the Seagate's Exos range, which can go up to 32TB (yes, you read that right). Announced back in January ...

Consider extended warranties for NAS drives to avoid spending more money due to unforeseen drive failure costs. Opt for fewer ...

Buyer beware—that 2TB-6TB “NAS” drive you’ve been eyeing might be SMR Hard drives were already bad at random access I/O—but SMR disks are worse.

Western Digital has finally admitted which of its hard drives are currently SMR and which are CMR, allowing customers to avoid a technology that may not be compatible with their existing hardware.

While Seagate announced that it was offering Virident PCIe-based solid state drives to its OEM and distribution partners in January 2013 as a way to increase its offering in the enterprise SSD ...

As of 2016, no hard drives on the market were using HAMR, but Seagate expects the first 16TB HAMR HDDs to make an arrival in 2018 at the earliest. Last modified on 13 March 2017 Rate this item ...

Western Digital's new marketing for the SMR-equipped Red drives labels them as for SOHO use only and clarifies that this means low-intensity operations with lots of idle time in between—and no ZFS.

Multiple hard drive manufacturers were caught shipping SMR drives to consumers, but only Western Digital put them in its NAS product line. That decision has won the company a class action lawsuit.

Several hard drive makers have been under fire for quietly replacing some HDD models with ones that use a technology called shingled magnetic recording (SMR) instead of conventional magnetic ...

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