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On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 8:32 AM Wols Lists <antlists@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On 17/06/20 05:47, Dale wrote: |
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> > From what I've read, all the drive makers were selling SMR without |
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> > telling anyone at first. It wasn't just WD but Seagate as well. |
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> Yes, but Seagate didn't start selling SMR drives advertised as |
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> "optimised for raid/nas".THAT is what's so bad about the WD case - those |
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> drives are almost guaranteed to fail the moment anything ELSE goes wrong |
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> elsewhere. |
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WD also put it in their Black line. Those are drives marketed to |
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enthusiasts willing to pay a premium for some kind of cutting-edge |
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performance. And they stuck SMR in it. |
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This is like paying for a high-end NVMe and finding out that it just |
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has a class 4 SDcard inside with a PCIe-USB2-SD interface. |
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All the drive manufacturers are scummy at this point though. You have |
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no choice but to buy from them, but I trust new drives as far as I can |
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throw them, and every new drive is getting benchmarked from here on |
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out... |
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Rich |
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