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Are Archive hard Drives ok for Readynas?
Are Archive hard Drives(aka Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) ok for Readynas? They kind of overlap the magnetic strips like shingles, and have a double wide reader/writer head or something lik...
Ugh!
I guess I will use my 8TB as intended as a stand-alone backup to my Readynas for picture and documents,etc..
I purchase this as an external drive and opened it up to use the hard drive in an upgrade.
Thanks.
miogpsrocks wrote:
I purchase this as an external drive and opened it up to use the hard drive in an upgrade.
It is tempting to do that because of the lower price, though even if they are PMR they aren't designed for RAID (no TLER for example).
Most Seagate USB drives > 4 TB are SMR. Western Digital drives don't use SMR.
Hopefully HAMR will come along soon. The 16 TB seagates expected in 2018 are allegedly HAMR.
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