Articles for tag: CMR, drivers, Red, SMR, Technology

The Boss

PC
Some WD Red drivers use SMR technology less than CMR

Some WD Red drivers use SMR technology less than CMR

The main problem with this is not that WD has decided to start using SMR technology on their WD Red drivers, but the fact that they did not warn him, not even on the disc sheet. It would be the equivalent of buying a high performance SSD and finding yourself using cheap NAND QLC chips. ...

The Boss

PC

CMR technology in HDDs, why is it confused with PMR?

To understand the whole CMR problem, we have to turn to another technology that fits perfectly and, in fact, we can say that it was even perplexed. We refer to PMR, a technology that came before and in a very curious way maintained their name even when it ceased to exist. CMR yes or CMR ...

The Boss

PC

Western Digital developed the first CMR and SMR hard drive of 18 and 20 TB

Although they are not available to mainstream businesses Western Digital has started sending high quality HDDs samples of its partners to the OEM business industry at the same time to customers of hyperscalable servers. Said Shipping is focused on its two new types of invoices and most of the data has not been disclosed, but ...