Thank you everyone that helped me with this issue.
I learned a great deal.
Namely, for my particular use case, SMR drives are sub-optimal.
It is VERY difficult to even find out if drives are SMR or CMR, because
apparently the manufacturers try to put it all out the door. As mentioned
by Mr. Ritter, the information of writing technology is not disclosed
easily,
and in some cases, bordering on deceptive.
I will replace this drive since I have little faith in it, as it was
originally purposed,
important backup. I will just use it as a redundant backup or just a
short term/temporary
storage drive - and monitor it.
On 10/21/21 6:08 PM, Kenneth Parker wrote:
On Thu, Oct 21, 2021, 9:02 AM David <bouncingc...@gmail.com
<mailto:bouncingc...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 at 23:53, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net
<mailto:ghesk...@shentel.net>> wrote:
> And what does this SMR acronym mean, Dan?
Questions like this can be answered with an
internet search engine. Search for "Seagate SMR".
For fun you can add search terms like
"controversy guilty dreaded bad press" etc
What? Seagate Magnetic Recording caught Shingles? (Sorry!)
Kenneth Parker
