Thursday, April 16, 2020

Sneaky Marketing - WD, Toshiba, & Seagate Shipping Slower SMR Drives Without Disclosure

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sneaky-marketing-toshiba-seagate-wd-smr-drives-without-disclosure
"Due to the complexities of increasing drive density, the industry developed SMR to boost hard drive capacity within the same footprint."
"For WD, that consisted of working the SMR models into its WD Red line of drives, but only the lower-capacity 2TB to 6TB models."
"Toshiba ... is also selling SMR drives without disclosure, but does so within its P300 series of desktop drives."
"Seagate also disclosed that it uses the tech in four models, including its Desktop HDD 5TB, without disclosure."

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