On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 10:42:49 +1200, I wrote:
Turns out there’s a whole Reddit subforum devoted to the subject of digital data hoarding.
Found another mention of it in this article <https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/14/wd-red-nas-drives-shingled-magnetic-recording/> where some data hoarders claim that Western Digital is shipping them SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) drives badged as CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording). The shingled drives aren’t designed for RAID use, and keep throwing up errors on a configuration change (“resilvering”), when write operations take longer than expected. Or the whole data-rebalancing operation ends up taking days instead of hours <https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/15/shingled-drives-have-non-shingled-zones-for-caching-writes/>.