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[LUG] consumer non-SMR 2.5" hard drives
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- Subject: [LUG] consumer non-SMR 2.5" hard drives
- From: comrade meowski <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 18:54:12 +0000
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Has anyone got or know of a good source for finding non-SMR drives for
"ordinary" people at "ordinary" prices?
I'm more used to buying high end NAS or enterprise drives by the boat
load but I need to source some boring old 2.5" USB HDDs - the sort of
thing you used to be able to just pick a random one off Amazon or
wherever and not worry about it being a broken piece of crap out of the
box.
1Tb and 2Tb models - the exact thing that basically all normal home
users need lying around to backup their laptops - are as far as I can
tell now literally impossible to buy without getting SMR units. These
are of course unsuitable for anything but are especially unsuitable for
the sustained writes of large backup passes.
Anandtech and other sites have lots and lots of completely useless
guides to buying non-SMR drives and I have had absolutely zero success
trying to find a definitive list of "normal" units anywhere. Obviously
buying expensive 3.5" Pro NAS drives of 8Tb+ capacity will get me out of
crappy SMR drives but I don't need stupid Anandtech to tell me that and
neither does anybody else: it's exactly the cheap boring consumer units
that sell millions of units that need a buyers guide.
I'd very happily settle for just a single known-good model of barebones
non-SMR 2.5" HDD 1 or 2Tb capacity and source the caddy myself.
Otherwise I'm not really seeing much of an option except moving even
boring backup drives to SSD by default. What a disaster. I'll never
forgive the hard drive manufacturers for this entirely self-inflicted
submarining of SMR drives into supply chain...
Anyone?
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