30 Apr
2020
30 Apr
'20
11:41 a.m.
On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 19:33:01 +1200, I wrote:
... and Toshiba to add to the collection, of vendors selling SMR drives without telling their customers <https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/16/toshiba-desktop-disk-drives-undocumented-shingle-magnetic-recording/>.
Toshiba has now been forthcoming <https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/29/toshiba-consumer-disk-drives-smr-list/> with details of which of its desktop-type drives are using SMR. That article also mentions a category of drives specifically designed for “video surveillance”. Well, I suppose SMR is acceptable for an application like that, where the writes are mostly sequential.