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Dear All , I want to replace my laptop internal HDD. I have seen HDD specs with CMR and SMR technology but not sure which suits my usage. My usage is mostly Software development and very light entertainment (web surfing and watching videos). Is the HDD with SMR technology fits my use case or...

I've got a couple tower computers I'm fixing up and need to install drives in them. Both need about 1TB of storage besides whatever Windows a couple of apps will need. These are both older SATA computers, no NVME. Of course I'd like to have an SSD for a boot drive. I've always gone with the...

Hello! So I’m debating on what drive to use in my fuzedrive setup. I was planning on getting a 4tb barracuda but found out that it now uses SMR does this matter if I’m using tiered storage? Because I was originally gonna use just a 2tb SSD but decided on a fuzedrive setup to save money while...

Hello, I hope somebody can help in my quest to buy a new hard-drive and specifically how to determine if it uses SMR or CMR. Unfortunately most hardware manufacturers do not state it anymore in their datasheets. At the moment I am searching an external 4 TB drive with CMR and am considering the...