Sammy Posted February 3, 2022 Member ID: 3036 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 219 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 9419 Content Per Day: 1.92 Reputation: 7515 Achievement Points: 62539 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 21 Joined: 11/29/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 04/26/2008 Device: Windows Posted February 3, 2022 (edited) Since HDD tech is not something I keep up on, I never heard of SMR before. The couple reads I found about what it is and how it works were quite enlightening. I need a USB drive, that I planned to hook up to my NAS, just as extra storage to keep stuff for backup that I wouldnt access that much. My NAS is pretty full and the plan is to offload some less essential BD backups or large archives. For example all my game development and modeling/asset files are much more important than a backup of Star Wars. However still easily accessible when needed as opposed to having to keep it hooked up to my PC all the time sitting on my desk. So in the end, its likely not really an issue for that purpose. However the NAS itself does have two 4TB red drives that are on the list that does use SMR. It seems they are no longer on the Synology list of compatible drives. They are over three years old now and probably bought around the time WD started to. While their usage is probably just average it is not particularly encouraging. It seems to be the usual on consumer level drives these days as well. So when the day comes that I need to replace one of my PC drives it will be something to keep in mind. Newegg does list that info for those that it knows about. Seagate has an official page. WD has some info on a blog post and consumer relations email responses. I will likely get bigger NAS drives this year anyway. So I could just go for the more expensive models that use the reliable traditional methods. But their extra expense would have to be kept in mind for budgeting that I didnt plan on. https://www.newegg.com/Hard-Drives/Category/ID-15 https://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/cmr-smr-list/ https://nascompares.com/2020/04/16/your-wd-red-nas-hard-drives-might-be-using-smr-what-you-need-to-know/ Edited February 3, 2022 by Sammy Awards
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