SMR hard drive

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I recently purchased a smr hard drive for a backup/alt drive.
My question is would this also be suitable for gaming?
Not massive new games but older games in the 1-12GB range.
I assume it would because the games won't require that much writing aside from autosaves and i know that's the worst thing about SMR drives, but i want to be sure.
 
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funny the link i posted stated the compute version was meantr for gaming but it might only be for gameing if it is the pro version. either way if it is not any of the other classes i listed then it should be fine. an SSD drive or one of seagates hydrid drives would be the best for loading times
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it's a seagate ST3000DM007
 
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Are you sure? i don't see anything to do with gaming here
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funny the link i posted stated the compute version was meantr for gaming but it might only be for gameing if it is the pro version. either way if it is not any of the other classes i listed then it should be fine. an SSD drive or one of seagates hydrid drives would be the best for loading times
 
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I already have an ssd, from what i've gathered it uses something called "multi tier caching" which appears to use smr and pmr?
Either way it's made it more confusing, i'll assume you're right though since i don't really know much about hard drive technology either way and put smaller games onto it.
 


most of those techs are only meant to help them increase the capacity they are able to put on a HDD and has nothing to do with performance

 
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Ok, i kind of get it i guess, as long as it's good for gaming it's all good really