It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Glass-Fix-4624 on 2024-08-06 14:17:48.

I didnt' even know that there was a distinction between SMR and other types of hdds before two days ago. Now that I'm building my first DAS, I heard people keep reccommending against buying and using SMR drives. The thing is, it looks like all my current HDDs and refurbished HDDs that I can get at reasonable price are all SMR. For now I've two 2tb drives, one 4tb drive, and one 1tb drive, and I've ordered one 12tb HDD as my main backup HDD.

But now considering the amount of bad opinions about SMRs, I'm starting to doubt if I'm doing something wrong by keeping data only on SMR drives. For now, I've experienced two HDD failures in the past 4-5 years

Also it looks like basically most of the HDDs are SMR? So I'll have to buy SDD to get CMR?