Submission + - Western Digital pulls a performance stunt (arstechnica.com)
castrox writes: Western Digital has quietly changed the technology in their marketed NAS drives and lowered the number of platterns driving down performance significantly.
From Ars Technica:
"Storage vendors, including but reportedly not limited to Western Digital, have quietly begun shipping SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) disks in place of earlier CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording) disks."
From Ars Technica:
"Storage vendors, including but reportedly not limited to Western Digital, have quietly begun shipping SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) disks in place of earlier CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording) disks."