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Aggressive HGST hurls flashy humdingers at online archiving

Richard Boyce
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Shingles

As a lay person, everything I hear about shingled drives gives me the willies. It may make sense in big data centres with lots of redundancy, but I will never buy such a drive. Until HAMR or better technology comes along, I'll make do with current PMR, even if that means buying extra drives.

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