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https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wd-addresses-smr-controversy-with-new-red-plus-hard-drives

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from my 2 days research I have better overview, what HDD was created with CMR and what with SMR technology (not only for NASes). Seems to be two main HDD vendors - Seagate and Western Digital have prepared new NAS product white sheets with clear information about used technology for a magnetic...

You can start with reading of these blogs in our forum: Blog, 1st part Blog, 2nd part

April 28, 2020 Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation The introduction of Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology has enabled HDD manufacturers, such as Toshiba, to increase the capacity of their spinning platter drives beyond that of existing approaches. SMR technology is...

Part No. 2 ..... previous Part No. 1 is available here ------------------------------ Nowadays technologies of recording - PMR: The most widespread technology standard for data recording on magnetic media since 2005 is Perpendicular recording (or perpendicular magnetic recording, PMR). Reason...

Part No.1 ------------------------------ Intro: It looks like in April 2020, a specific topic regarding HDDs has become the talk of the town for many forums. The base for this topic are three mysterious letters or rather an acronym called „SMR“ - Shingled magnetic recording. The craze about SMR...