s00mika

joined 2 years ago
[–] s00mika@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All consumer 2.5" Seagate and WD drive >500GB are SMR.

Except older ones.

[–] s00mika@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Most if not all of them are fake cards with real recycled components. They take broken server boards with soldered HBA chips and put them onto a new fake PCB, then sell it back to you. Same thing is true with network cards

[–] s00mika@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Mount each drive as subdirectories of C:\

[–] s00mika@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I've heard that overheating is more of an issue with the SAS 12Gbit HBAs, not the older 6Git ones like yours

[–] s00mika@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

You can get 18TB factory recertified for 200€

[–] s00mika@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mine work well as external drives. Keep in mind that according to the datasheet these are not designed for 24/7 runtime, people who tried that had failures

[–] s00mika@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Technically not native USB, they usually have a SATA to USB translator chip soldered

[–] s00mika@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

With your logic we would not have recertified drives.

[–] s00mika@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They also have the scummiest tactics.

Did they recall those broken by design external SSDs, or are they still trying to sell them and to blame it on the Sandisk brand?