SMR vs CMR: Why Some Hard Drives Crawl Through Long Writes
Two hard drives can match on capacity, speed and cache and still behave very differently under heavy writes. The difference is how the tracks are laid down.
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How to Tell a Drive Is Failing Before It Takes Your Data
SMART warns you about some failures and says nothing about others. What the counters mean, what sounds mean, and when to stop diagnosing and start copying.
