ylai@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoNot Dead Yet: WD Releases New 6TB 2.5-Inch External Hard Drives - First Upgrade in Seven Yearswww.anandtech.comexternal-linkmessage-square22linkfedilinkarrow-up1140arrow-down14cross-posted to: datahoarder@lemmy.mlhardware@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareshiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years agoFrom the article: UPDATE 5/17, 6 PM: Western Digital has confirmed that the new 2.5-inch T GB HDDs uses 6 SMR platters SMR = shingled magnetic recording https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingled_magnetic_recording - “continuous writing of large amount of data is noticeably slower than with CMR drives”
From the article:
UPDATE 5/17, 6 PM: Western Digital has confirmed that the new 2.5-inch T GB HDDs uses 6 SMR platters
SMR = shingled magnetic recording https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingled_magnetic_recording - “continuous writing of large amount of data is noticeably slower than with CMR drives”