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From: Wols Lists <antlists@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 11:54:19
Message-Id: 5EEA0D44.5070807@youngman.org.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good. by Dale
1 On 17/06/20 05:47, Dale wrote:
2 > From what I've read, all the drive makers were selling SMR without
3 > telling anyone at first. It wasn't just WD but Seagate as well.
4
5 Yes, but Seagate didn't start selling SMR drives advertised as
6 "optimised for raid/nas".THAT is what's so bad about the WD case - those
7 drives are almost guaranteed to fail the moment anything ELSE goes wrong
8 elsewhere.
9
10 Cheers,
11 Wol

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