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    From Lynn McGuire@lynnmcguire5@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage on Fri May 29 20:23:44 2020
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    "Firm Seeks Class Action Suit Over WD’s SMR Hard Drives"
    https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wd-class-action-lawsuit-smr-hard-drive

    "Hattis & Lukacs, a class-action firm, has begun soliciting plaintiffs
    for a potential class-action lawsuit against hard drive maker Western
    Digital (WD) for not disclosing that several of its hard drives use
    slower, SMR technology."

    "We recently reported that Western Digital (WD) was shipping hard drives
    with SMR technology, a technology that boosts capacity but results in
    slower hard drives, without listing that fact in marketing materials and product specifications. Further scrutiny found that Toshiba and Seagate
    also engage in the practice, which obviously leaves the door open for litigation against those companies, too."

    "Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) involves overlapping recording tracks
    on a hard drive to boost capacity and reduce manufacturing costs, but it results in reduced performance in several types of workloads. For
    instance, ServeTheHome posted an article yesterday that outlined the performance compared to standard Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR)
    drives, finding much slower speeds in several tasks."

    I had no idea.

    Lynn
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  • From VanguardLH@V@nguard.LH to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage on Sat May 30 10:21:09 2020
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    "Firm Seeks Class Action Suit Over WD¢s SMR Hard Drives"
    https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wd-class-action-lawsuit-smr-hard-drive

    "Hattis & Lukacs, a class-action firm, has begun soliciting plaintiffs
    for a potential class-action lawsuit against hard drive maker Western Digital (WD) for not disclosing that several of its hard drives use
    slower, SMR technology."

    "We recently reported that Western Digital (WD) was shipping hard drives with SMR technology, a technology that boosts capacity but results in
    slower hard drives, without listing that fact in marketing materials and product specifications. Further scrutiny found that Toshiba and Seagate
    also engage in the practice, which obviously leaves the door open for litigation against those companies, too."

    "Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) involves overlapping recording tracks
    on a hard drive to boost capacity and reduce manufacturing costs, but it results in reduced performance in several types of workloads. For
    instance, ServeTheHome posted an article yesterday that outlined the performance compared to standard Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) drives, finding much slower speeds in several tasks."

    I had no idea.

    Lynn

    And when have you EVER got a hard drive that met its specifications in
    the first place? Like its rated read and write speeds? Marketing pukes
    out the "in theory under ideal (experimental) conditions" specs for
    their products, but you'll never achieve those specs in a real-world application. They don't even differentiate between momentary boost
    operation versus sustained operation.
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