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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 08:04:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_=A=r3kT4c9iW8unoABj_aQzz+7y7wh79XQdDODm2W8BQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5EEA0D44.5070807@youngman.org.uk>

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 8:32 AM Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On 17/06/20 05:47, Dale wrote:
> > From what I've read, all the drive makers were selling SMR without
> > telling anyone at first.  It wasn't just WD but Seagate as well.
>
> Yes, but Seagate didn't start selling SMR drives advertised as
> "optimised for raid/nas".THAT is what's so bad about the WD case - those
> drives are almost guaranteed to fail the moment anything ELSE goes wrong
> elsewhere.
>

WD also put it in their Black line.  Those are drives marketed to
enthusiasts willing to pay a premium for some kind of cutting-edge
performance.  And they stuck SMR in it.

This is like paying for a high-end NVMe and finding out that it just
has a class 4 SDcard inside with a PCIe-USB2-SD interface.

All the drive manufacturers are scummy at this point though.  You have
no choice but to buy from them, but I trust new drives as far as I can
throw them, and every new drive is getting benchmarked from here on
out...

-- 
Rich


  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-17 12:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-15 16:07 [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good Dale
2020-06-15 19:20 ` Spackman, Chris
2020-06-15 19:54 ` Mark Knecht
2020-06-15 20:00   ` Rich Freeman
2020-06-15 20:04     ` Mark Knecht
2020-06-16  7:34   ` Dale
2020-06-16  8:22     ` Wols Lists
2020-06-16  9:04       ` Dale
2020-06-16 11:02         ` Wols Lists
2020-06-16 11:26           ` Dale
2020-06-16 11:36             ` Michael
2020-06-16 12:25               ` Rich Freeman
2020-06-16 23:38                 ` antlists
2020-06-17  9:47                   ` Rich Freeman
2020-06-23 16:14                 ` Sid Spry
2020-06-23 17:20                   ` Rich Freeman
2020-06-23 18:44                     ` Sid Spry
2020-06-16 13:14               ` Dale
2020-06-16 23:24             ` antlists
2020-06-17  4:47               ` Dale
2020-06-17 12:32                 ` Wols Lists
2020-06-17 12:04                   ` Rich Freeman [this message]
2020-06-16  8:29     ` Neil Bothwick
2020-06-16  8:52       ` Dale
2020-06-15 19:54 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2020-06-15 20:04   ` Grant Edwards
2020-06-15 23:03 ` [gentoo-user] " madscientistatlarge
2020-06-15 23:18 ` David Haller
2020-06-16  7:17   ` Dale
2020-06-16  7:32     ` William Kenworthy
2020-06-16  7:37       ` Dale
2020-06-17 15:27     ` David Haller
2020-06-18  8:07       ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2020-06-23 16:08     ` Sid Spry
2020-06-23 16:38       ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2020-06-23 16:41         ` Sid Spry
2020-06-23 17:26           ` Dale
2020-06-23 18:32             ` Sid Spry
2020-06-23 19:37               ` Dale
2020-06-23 20:03                 ` Rich Freeman
2020-06-24  4:26               ` Wols Lists
2020-06-18  9:14   ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2020-06-22  1:52     ` Pengcheng Xu
2020-06-22  2:15       ` Dale
2020-06-22 19:10     ` David Haller
2020-06-22 20:29       ` Dale
2020-06-22 22:59         ` David Haller
2020-06-23  4:18           ` Dale
2020-06-17  6:02 ` Dale
2020-06-20  9:50 ` Dale

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