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Anonymous
01/02/26(Fri)17:00:13 No.107744964

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Anonymous 01/02/26(Fri)17:00:13 No.107744964

is smr really as bad as people say?

I've been using a seagate external for years and never noticed an issue want to get a second one.

but I keep hearing how smr is dog shit and the worst thing ever. I just wrote about 800gb to mine and didn't notice any massive drops?

Anonymous
01/02/26(Fri)17:08:05 No.107745055

Anonymous 01/02/26(Fri)17:08:05 No.107745055

>>107744964
Most people don't usually have 800GB of blu-ray muxes. Usually it's thousands of JPG files, carefully curated music ripped from a youtube-to-128kbps-mp3 website, documents, and so on and so on. That's where SMR chokes dick. You can mitigate this by zipping up all those little files into a giant .rar I guess.

Anonymous
01/02/26(Fri)17:14:17 No.107745116

Anonymous 01/02/26(Fri)17:14:17 No.107745116

>>107745055
it was all random assorted files

Anonymous
01/02/26(Fri)17:41:21 No.107745371

Anonymous 01/02/26(Fri)17:41:21 No.107745371

>>107744964
It'll grind down to a halt once it starts getting full or fragmented enough for it to need to rewrite large chunks of blocks to write a few empty blocks
t. Seagate 8tb smr

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