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Discussions on WindowsForum.com about read performance often involve hard drive technologies like SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) and their impact on data access. In one thread, a user tested four Seagate Barracuda 2TB SMR drives in a RAID 0 array and found that while write performance suffered due to firmware limitations, read performance remained surprisingly good. This highlights that SMR drives can still deliver acceptable read speeds for certain use cases, despite their well-known write slowdowns. The tag covers real-world experiences with storage hardware, RAID configurations, and the trade-offs between read and write performance in Windows systems.
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What use are SMR HDD's
Shingled Magnetic Recording drives have a bad name, and rightly so if you need to write continuously for more than a couple of minutes, because the firmware just can't cope and frequently grinds to a halt for a few seconds. As someone who always buys NAS HDD's for their longevity and durability...- RobertP
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