I will never but a Western Digital product again after the way they've misleadingly marketed SMR drives in the past and gaslighted users about their performance.
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2023
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This ^
Also because it seems that all the WD blues I've ever bought have died xd
Seagate has 32TB HAMR coming out in the next ~7 months
It doesn't look like they announced pricing
SMR should die.
I can't imagine how many years it would take to resilver that drive.
Depends on your use case. If you can get 15% more storage for the same cost it could be worth it to data hoarders for no measurable performance issues.
Bad take. Everything has a use case. SMR is great as a cold storage medium
Its been a while since i looked but doesn't Ultrastar lineup have 4kn while Gold is 512e?
You can just switch the drive between the 2 modes in just a few seconds with a command.