Seagate has
16TB Seagate Expansion External Desktop Hard Drive (STKP16000400) on sale for
$199.99.
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About this Item:
- Seagate Expansion desktop hard drive is user-friendly, requiring only a power adapter and USB cable to get started.
- USB 3.0 allows fast file transfers for efficient data management.
- Easily save files by simply dragging and dropping them, with no additional setup required.
- It automatically recognizes both Windows and Mac computers for quick installation, although reformatting is necessary for Time Machine compatibility.
- For added security and peace of mind, the drive comes with a limited warranty and includes Rescue Data Recovery Services.
Top Comments
Shingle is able to store data more densely because portions of bits overlap others in the next row, hence "shingle" . Because of this, the cost per TB is often less than CMR.
However, in many causes this comes at a significant performance loss depending on how you use the drive. If you plan on writing to an SMR drive once, and mostly just reading after that, SMR is fine. If you are using in a NAS or RAID configuration(especially ZFS) or you are going to be writing and overwriting pretty often, you want CMR.
Rule of thumb is that CMR is best. While your current use-case might be fine with SMR, future plans for the drive could be an issue. The only real user benefit to buying SMR is a slight reduction in cost. There's no circumstance that makes it worth it for me to buy an SMR drive. I suppose opinions vary though.
Looking at 16TB, it's not as good relative to WD, but it isn't bad in absolute percentages.
If you can find WD selling new, external, 16TB drives right now anywhere near $200.. I'd be surprised
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edit:
m-kay, 16tb should be cmr
https://www.seagate.com/products/cmr-smr-list/
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edit:
m-kay, 16tb should be cmr
https://www.seagate.com/products/cmr-smr-list/
:tide
What does CMR vs S means?
Which one is better ?
Which one is better ?
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I might get one. Last week one of my WD Whites 12TB in my Synology DS920 just got degraded and need replacement.
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Which one is better ?
Shingle is able to store data more densely because portions of bits overlap others in the next row, hence "shingle" . Because of this, the cost per TB is often less than CMR.
However, in many causes this comes at a significant performance loss depending on how you use the drive. If you plan on writing to an SMR drive once, and mostly just reading after that, SMR is fine. If you are using in a NAS or RAID configuration(especially ZFS) or you are going to be writing and overwriting pretty often, you want CMR.
Rule of thumb is that CMR is best. While your current use-case might be fine with SMR, future plans for the drive could be an issue. The only real user benefit to buying SMR is a slight reduction in cost. There's no circumstance that makes it worth it for me to buy an SMR drive. I suppose opinions vary though.
For low-use media backup/archival, OK to use cheap datacenter refurbs?
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