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kohtatsu on May 12, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2020

I'm (unfortunately) boycotting WD and their subsidiaries; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22935563

greggyb on May 12, 2020 [–]

Who are you buying from? Seagate also had undisclosed SMR, and I believe Toshiba did as well.

fomine3 on May 13, 2020 | [–]

Seagate and Toshiba are sane compared to WD because they never adopt SMR on NAS drives.

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