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		kderbe on March 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Benchmarking Cheap SSDs for Fun, No Profit The 8TB 7200 RPM Toshiba drive has decent sustained write performance. But if the author had tested a cheaper hard disk, such as a 8TB Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) Seagate drive, they'd have seen sustained writes even worse than the cheapest SSDs.

louwrentius on March 27, 2023 [–]

One of these days I should write an article on how the invention and sale of SMR drives is hate crime and a violation of the Geneva convention.

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