Re: Sata Hard drive testing

From	Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Sata Hard drive testing
Date	2021-10-21 15:10 +0200
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On Jo, 21 oct 21, 08:53:10, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 21 October 2021 08:13:26 Dan Ritter wrote:
> 
> > > === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> > > Device Model:     ST8000DM004-2CX188
> >
> > You should be able to return this drive without proving that it
> > is defective; this is one of Seagates' SMR drives that they did
> > not disclose were SMR.
> >
> > -dsr-
> 
> And what does this SMR acronym mean, Dan?

Wikipedia is quite helpful for such queries.

Searching for 'SMR' brings one to a fairly long disambiguation page, but 
there is only one entry mentioning hard drives ;)

The first two paragraphs of the article is already quite informative on 
why one might want to avoid SMR drives.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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Sata Hard drive testing Thomas Anderson <thomas.anderson@little-beak.com> - 2021-10-18 18:40 +0200
  Re: Sata Hard drive testing Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-10-18 18:50 +0200
  Re: Sata Hard drive testing Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-10-18 19:10 +0200
    Re: Sata Hard drive testing Thomas Anderson <thomas.anderson@little-beak.com> - 2021-10-18 19:30 +0200
    Re: Sata Hard drive testing Thomas Anderson <thomas.anderson@little-beak.com> - 2021-10-21 01:50 +0200
      Re: Sata Hard drive testing Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-21 02:40 +0200
      Re: Sata Hard drive testing piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-10-21 03:20 +0200
        Re: Sata Hard drive testing Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-10-21 10:40 +0200
      Re: Sata Hard drive testing David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-10-21 04:40 +0200
        Re: Sata Hard drive testing piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-10-21 16:30 +0200
      Re: Sata Hard drive testing Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-10-21 07:50 +0200
      Re: Sata Hard drive testing Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-10-21 14:40 +0200
        Re: Sata Hard drive testing Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-21 15:00 +0200
          Re: Sata Hard drive testing David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2021-10-21 15:10 +0200
            Re: Sata Hard drive testing Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-21 16:30 +0200
            Re: Sata Hard drive testing Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2021-10-21 18:10 +0200
              Re: Sata Hard drive testing Thomas Anderson <thomas.anderson@little-beak.com> - 2021-10-24 17:00 +0200
          Re: Sata Hard drive testing Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-10-21 15:10 +0200
            Re: Sata Hard drive testing Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-10-21 15:20 +0200
  Re: Sata Hard drive testing basti <mailinglist@unix-solution.de> - 2021-10-18 19:50 +0200
  Re: Sata Hard drive testing David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-10-18 20:40 +0200
  Re: Sata Hard drive testing Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-10-18 21:30 +0200

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