On 17 October 2017 at 11:59, Laurent Laborde <kerdez...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What's the point of the seagate archive now ? > Ironwolf, for the same public price, have better performance (obviously) > and, more surprising, a better MTBF. > I have no real insight into whether Seagate are still pursuing the product design, but I'm not really surprised that the MTBF is worse: if the shingled disk must write some tracks twice for each individual track write, it seems logical that there will be more write stress and therefore shortened lifespan, no? Geoff