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Re: [LUG] consumer non-SMR 2.5" hard drives

 
On 03/12/2021 16:15, Simon Avery wrote:
I think the tumbleweed means either everyone else was away from their email for a while like I was, or is an answer in itself. 
I must admit SMR was something that had passed me utterly by, I've not 
bought non-SSD drives for myself for some years, and I've had an 
educating time reading up about them and the problems, and it's 
reconfirmed my cynicism about marketing and hardware manufacturers...

I'm afraid I can't shed much light, other than bothering Google and 
turning up such things as

https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/list-of-known-smr-drives.141/ <https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/list-of-known-smr-drives.141/> 


and

https://nascompares.com/answer/list-of-wd-cmr-and-smr-hard-drives-hdd/ 
<https://nascompares.com/answer/list-of-wd-cmr-and-smr-hard-drives-hdd/>

But you no doubt have found such things anyway.


Manufacturers aren't exactly advertising this for obvious reasons, and 
the average user probablu cares more about capacity than performance in 
their spinny media, so the odds are against you I'm afraid.

Thanks chief - that was exactly how I was reading things as well. 
Sometimes the lack of response can be a response in itself! Either 
nobody knows or nobody cares which is a way of reality telling you: 
"nice try, now roll up your sleeves and fix it yourself". Fair enough I 
guess.

My hope was that someone else doing professional IT and similarly sick 
of looking for lists of non-SMR drives online would have done my 
homework for me and found a handy Reddit thread or some other convenient 
community maintained googledocs spreadsheet out there with a current 
list. I'm pretty sure they are out there somewhere and I'm just not 
looking hard enough. I tried r/datahoarder as pretty much the first 
option and while there's plenty of scattered info, no convenient "buyers 
guide".

Oh well, back to shopping and research I guess. Like you I don't buy 
anything that isn't either SSD/NVME or (much) higher capacity pro HDDs 
for myself - crappy 2Tb bottom of the barrel USB consumer drives are 
unfortunately a necessary evil for a lot of people though.


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