From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5054A158086 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2021 20:56:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E7570E0A43; Wed, 6 Oct 2021 20:56:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk (smtp.hosts.co.uk [85.233.160.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 865CFE09FD for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2021 20:56:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from host86-155-223-151.range86-155.btcentralplus.com ([86.155.223.151] helo=[192.168.1.65]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1mYDxq-000AtR-5a for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2021 21:56:35 +0100 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive pricing and the near future To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <3e528088-4325-202d-cd1f-f29efb42638d@gmail.com> From: antlists Message-ID: <5ec88a9b-6f47-8465-27a8-575f1b97a792@youngman.org.uk> Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2021 21:56:36 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.14.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 81bd3575-60f1-463b-9d24-7c2c66573295 X-Archives-Hash: b6f1495a15765292e82e04c021e3f178 On 06/10/2021 21:20, Laurence Perkins wrote: > But currently the WD Purples and the Seagate Skyhawks should all be CMR. > Seagate have said the Iromwolf range will remain CMR. BarraCuda is now all SMR (renamed from Barracuda, presumably to say it's still the budget range, but the old drives are pre-SMR). I get the impression that FireCuda are the "budget CMR" range, but don't quote me on that. > Obviously I have no power to hold them to that, so do not take this as any kind of guarantee. But if they change it without warning they're likely to have a lot of unhappy customers. AS WD found out when loads of "marketed for NAS" WD Reds got returned "not fit for purpose" when people put them in NASs. Cheers, Wol