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It is PMR, at least WD says so, but users think it is PMR with SMR, because it uses single platter on 2tb drive and usually large cache(256) is dead giveway that drive uses SMR. https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/smr-resilver.77964

Hmm, how come that speed is greater then on others, at least advertised one.

Thank you, that is good and normal for that many files, then my disk was faulty, but software didnt show anything, except long access times in HD Tune, Disk wasnt full only around 30%, dont know why it copied so slow, Im not only one who had that issue with BarraCuda. Im glad it works ok for you.

Try with couple more files, some files transfer ok, but many dont. But if it stays at 50mbs I think thats ok, in my case it went down to 10mbs many times.

Yep Seagate definetley uses SMR, which gives more capacity and slower performance. Owner of the shop will replace Seagate for WD Blue WD20EZRZ :D I would take WD20EZAZ but they dont have them, but EZRZ is ok.

I always had WD drives and not one failure, I buy first Seagate because it looks better on paper than WD and it totally disappoints me. Reviews on Newegg show 27% of negative ratings for Seagate and 15% for WD. And it never was a secret that WD is better, I just fell for false advertising.

I dont know about EZAZ, but I never had issues with WD drives.

I checked the law and because it is hidden error, I have 6 months right to report it, from the day I bought the disk. So I think everything will go as it should. They dont have EZAZ drive only EZRZ, but even EZRZ is better than BarraCuda. I also noticed after I copy one file, next file copy...

Hmm, it seems they could indeed be SMR. Too many people are complaining over this disk, reviews on Newegg are catastrophic, guy contacted me on Youtube and said that drive cannot write more than 40mbs while downloading with Utorrent. https://www.newegg.ca/p/N82E16822184773?reviews=all...

I couldnt run test from boot, it says No Operating system, but I managed to run it from Windows by copying files from usb F:\commandline_tools\Windows\Win64 to SeagateChest folder in Program files. All test are OK. I requested return and replacement for WD Blue 2tb WD20EZAZ in a store, but im...

Disk is brand new and everything is Ok.

HD Tune and Windows do not show any errors. Benchmark looks ok, but real life performance(copying) is weak. Many users have problems with this disk.

I booted with SeaTools Bootable, but there is Info which says: No Windows or Missin Operating System and I cant proceed.

It uses TGMR

Ok, but speed shouldnt drop to 10MBs, that is speed of a Micro SD Card.