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

Watch out for refurb Exos But beware: we've recently noticed hundreds of refurbished Seagate 28TB SMR hard disk drives that have surfaced online at pretty unbelievable prices. While this might ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

12TB drives later this year, 18TB next yearAccording to senior executives familiar with Seagate’s research and development plans, the company plans to fine-tune the next three years of its HDD ...

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 ...

SMR entails overlapping recording tracks on a hard drive in a bid to slash manufacturing costs and ramp up hard drive capacity.

Also on September 9, Seagate announced that it has shipped over 1M shingled magnetic recording (SMR) hard disk drives.

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