JuxtaposedJaguar

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I vaguely remember seeing somewhere that Netflix will automatically charge you more if you keep using it in that way. But I could be misremembering. Double check your recent bills.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Any forum can be an echo chamber; there's nothing specific about the fediverse. For example: Reddit, Facebook groups, 4chan, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

How long do they last? I haven't had any problems so far.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The real downside to SMR drives is "random" writes; adjacent tracks need to be re-written, and then their adjacent tracks, and that keeps going until the tracks adjacent to a write happen to be empty. It doesn't matter much for long sequential writes (because adjacent tracks will be overwritten anyway). I think the re-writing process also hurts read performance for the host, but reads alone don't cause rewriting.

If you need to reshape/resilver your array (grow, shrink, or change geometry), it'll probably take weeks or months with an SMR drive compared to days for a CMR drive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The only time I've had drives from either company fail was when I knocked my drive cage off the desk while it was running; they've all been very reliable otherwise. Seagate drives are usually less expensive, though.

In active service I currently have 5 WD CMR drives, 1 WD SMR drive, 5 Seagate CMR drives, and 2 Seagate SMR drives. I also have 1 WD drive in storage. All WD drives are "Red" (the CMR ones now being called "Red Plus"), the CMR Seagate drives are "IronWolf", and the SMR Seagate drives are "Barracuda". My oldest WD drive is from 2018 and my oldest Seagate drive is from 2020.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Except their enterprise drives, of course. Because those customers have the resources to get even.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I used to only buy WD Reds for my NAS, until they secretly switched them to SMR. I agree that no one should buy from WD anymore.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I've thought WD was sleezy ever since they secretly switched from CMR drives to SMR drives, including in their NAS products (for which SMR drives are particularly unsuitable). So this doesn't surprise me at all.

People need to stop buying WD drives and buy Seagate instead. They had their own SMR scandal, but at least they never put them in their NAS drives.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Meh, it's a hobby. Lots of people talk about their hobbies.

Still a funny comic, though.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's what my "friend" did. Reddit banned every account he used on his phone at once, but with a different IP, desktop browser, and cookie isolation, they haven't noticed so far. He might sound like some professional troll, but he was actually banned for a stupid reason.

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