expiredMinexus posted Jan 19, 2025 02:50 PM
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expiredMinexus posted Jan 19, 2025 02:50 PM
20TB Seagate Expansion Desktop USB 3.0 External Hard Drive
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Anyway, that's why using a strong sense of filtration and due diligence helps with these comments. Once in a while you get a good nugget of info/wisdom which makes it worth the effort if you actually need said item.
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SMR drives have their place, and that's for write-once, read-many type applications (such as persistent backups).
Since mine is full, I'll try to remember to pull it out of the safe and try overwriting some of the files and see what happens.
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Plenty of articles? Nope. You mean expected timeframes and roadmaps which had many delays and is only now beginning to roll out the promised HAMR technology.
https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.
This is Seagate's official report on rolling out HAMR to other drives at volume scale. The whole claim that they've been in use since 14TB is on a timeline not anything official. Now as far as this poster's claim of it being old and highly tested technology, this is what the report states:
"Seagate has successfully completed qualification testing for its HAMR based Mozaic drives with several customers within the Mass Capacity markets, including a leading cloud service provider. The Company expects to begin shipping initial HAMR product volume to this cloud customer in the coming weeks"
So they did a pilot run, yet we have this random person touting it as a technology that is fully vetted. Date of report? December 3, 2024.
Again, take this person's comments with a grain of salt. Especially given they feel they need to reply in 5 different comments at a time. HAMR is not fully tested, and again this person has yet to provide any substantial proof that the drive they supposedly had was SMR. Bit of a joker really.
P.S. Here is Seagate's datasheet on what technologies are in which drives. Note how neither the EXOS E nor EXOS X drives are listed as containing HAMR under 24TB. So much for that claim that they've been in use since the x14.
https://www.seagate.com/products/cmr-smr-list/
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Bought some used seagate drives off ebay that were taken out of data centers at year 4 for my ugreen NAS. Running for 5 months with no problems.
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