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(Thanks RFD!) Aren't tech prices supposed to go down even in an industry rife with price fixing though? Maybe this will be another class action suit that'll settle in 2028 and I'll have another $7 cheque in USD to put on the wall because it costs more to cash it. tax only free shipping) from neweggcanada eBay in March 2018 so this isn't much of a deal, especially for tech. If these drives work for you, then cool - at least you can save a couple $ compared to other CMR / PMR drives. Over the past few years, Seagate has refined the performance loss by increasing cache to mask performance hits on SMR.

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I'm merely speaking from my own experience with the Seagate Backup Plus Portable 4TB External (Blue) - which other people have experienced with other SMR drives. Like with anything, it depends on your own use-case. During backups, I'll get 80-90MB/s on average (close to my gigabit ethernet limit), my biggest transfers though are probably in the range of a few hundred GB as it is a daily backup to that drive.

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They're missing the point entirely of which tool is best.ДЇWIW, I have this 8TB and use it in my server, which is used for downloads, backing up my other PCs, hosting my music server, and movie streaming. For that, you should be using an SSD, so anyone trying to promote buying another HDD for those cases is like someone promoting one spoon over another for digging.

Provided you're not trying to use an SMR drive as an OS drive or as a drive that needs high IO, you're fine. With how non-transparent WD and other companies have been about which drives use it and which don't (many 2TB-6TB WD drives were SMR which they never disclosed and yet you'd have people on here espousing their platitudes) and how capacities have been a challenge to increase, SMR or some variation / aspects of it is likely going to be baked into most future models at some point or another, you just won't be told however and still have people trying to argue about it. SMR in an HDD is perfectly suitable for most cases where an SSD is not needed. It's like the people who fret about SSD performance under unrealistic 'heavy/destroyer' workloads that are only possible through synthetic tests rather than day-to-day heavy performance scenarios.

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On top of that, the drive would need to be over 60% full and it would need to be non-sequential data that's being copied before that even starts to become an issue. Also add that not that many people are copying 1TB of data every day.

Your example would need to be multiplied by a factor of over 100x before it becomes even remotely true.

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We will continue to investigate and shall update the review if we manage to get to the bottom of this problem.I always find it odd how much people talk out of the a$$ when it comes to this stuff. Futuremark told us, that in theory, there shouldn't be any issues associated with SMR. Oddly, Futuremark's PC Mark 8 wouldn't run on the drive and would consistently crash. It reached a staggering 124MBps in sequential read, and a jaw-dropping 195MBps in sequential write both figures were obtained via the popular storage benchmark, CrystalDiskMark 3. Sure, put a 1TB SSD in an external enclosure and you'd end up with something faster вЂ“ but compared to other traditional platter-based hard disk drives with a low RPM, it is a stunner. The Seagate Backup Plus 8TB is probably one of the fastest external hard disk drives we've tested. You will need to add a couple of Watts for the actual power consumption but it is fair to say that leaving it connected 24x7 wouldn't be a bad idea given that it is essentially built for doing just that. Note that these figures are for the internal drive (Seagate hasn't provided the figures for the Backup Plus). The drive can be used 24 hours a day and sips power when in standby mode (less than 1W) and even in operating mode, consumes just 7.5W.