On Jo, 21 oct 21, 16:02:43, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 21 oct 21, 08:53:10, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 21 October 2021 08:13:26 Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > > > === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === > > > > Device Model: ST8000DM004-2CX188 > > > > > > You should be able to return this drive without proving that it > > > is defective; this is one of Seagates' SMR drives that they did > > > not disclose were SMR. > > > > > > -dsr- > > > > And what does this SMR acronym mean, Dan? > > Wikipedia is quite helpful for such queries. > > Searching for 'SMR' brings one to a fairly long disambiguation page, but > there is only one entry mentioning hard drives ;) > > The first two paragraphs of the article is already quite informative on > why one might want to avoid SMR drives.
And let's not forget about https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/list-of-known-smr-drives.141/ Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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