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 would have lots of stalls after almost full. But we don't hear... my drives stop working comment.
SMR cant handle random reads and writes like a CMR enterprise rated Sata Drive.
There would be a huge bottleneck and the drives would die quickly.
I cant believe bestbuy and seagate are throwing these drives into externals , i thought SMR died at 8TB ,
This 20TB should be like 150.00
I would rather purchase a 18TB -20TB Refurb from serverpartsdeals who gets their drives directly from seagate vs this SMR drive. Even if it was a few bucks more.
Also anyone buying large capacity drives should be running some sort or parity now
raid 1 , raid 5 raid 6 , etc.
The price is decent for what you get but they could ever easily be enterprise rejected drives that didn't meet QC. We don't know if these are SMR or CMR... Or at least I can't see who is winning the fight up there
The price is decent for what you get but they could ever easily be enterprise rejected drives that didn't meet QC. We don't know if these are SMR or CMR... Or at least I can't see who is winning the fight up there
https://www.techradar.c
Also pretty sure bestbuy bought a ton of these externals . very cheaply and sold it to the consumer . SMR is ok for external USB or a single drive use but never put them in RAID. Not designed for that use case. It will be awhile before consumers get good CMR 28TB -32TB CMR drives with HAMR mozaic 3+tech
WD is a better sure option to buy external hdds, or buy something other than 20TB external , 22-24TB from seagate if you want exos CMR
https://www.seagate.com/innovation/mozaic/
https://www.techradar.com/pro/pot...-heres-why [techradar.com]
Also pretty sure bestbuy bought a ton of these externals . very cheaply and sold it to the consumer . SMR is ok for external USB or a single drive use but never put them in RAID. Not designed for that use case. It will be awhile before consumers get good CMR 28TB -32TB CMR drives with HAMR mozaic 3+tech
WD is a better sure option to buy external hdds, or buy something other than 20TB external , 22-24TB from seagate if you want exos CMR
https://www.seagate.com/innovation/mozaic/
You guys don't need to believe him. That's the end of the argument. For me, I won't buy a hard drive even there is a slightest hint about SMR.
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you wouldnt want their warranty and their "recovery" service. what you need is reliable hardware. you would be lucky to have 30% of your valuable data back if they can recover any. the rest will be gone forever.
the replacement is such a joke too. you will get a used (dying) refurbished to replace your brand new that you paid at retail. this kind of practice should be banned. its not a warranty honor. its more like they are trying yo get rid of their low quality "brand new" products. then if they fail they would replace them with the used bad ones.
paid for a russian virgin bridemaid. if shes not virgin. they would replace a bogo single mother.
Come on man you are lost
This is why best buy dropped the 20TB significantly , they are ripping off people
get the 24TB!
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoar...s_sh
Here you chumps go
Seagate bringing back barracuda SMR drives
probably using some sort of HAMR tech
not CMR!
How foolish people who go against a Grand Master Slick Dealer
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/seag...merrevie
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/
The price is decent for what you get but they could ever easily be enterprise rejected drives that didn't meet QC. We don't know if these are SMR or CMR... Or at least I can't see who is winning the fight up there
You guys don't need to believe him. That's the end of the argument. For me, I won't buy a hard drive even there is a slightest hint about SMR.
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