Re: WD Black

On 6/26/2020 4:40 PM, David W. Hodgins wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 17:16:32 -0400, philo <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I'm wondering if there are performance issues with WD- Black hard drives.
>> On one of my Wife's Win10 machine, there was constant disk activity that
>> I could not trace down...all seemed normal.
>> I decided to clone the drive to a SSD and found a nice improvement that
>> I thought was simply a function of the SSD.
>> Then realized that on my main machine running Ubuntu 20.04 that also had
>> a WD-Black drive, there also seemed to be excess drive activity. Since I
>> have not done a disk clone backup in years, I cloned the drive to a
>> Seagate SATA and found the excess drive activity had been cured.
>> At the time I purchased the WD-Black, I thought I was getting a top of
>> the line drive.
> 
> If it's a recent drive, it may be using the inferior Shingled Magnetic 
> Recording
> (SMR) technology. See
> https://www.extremetech.com/computing/309730-western-digital-comes-clean-shares-which-hard-drives-use-smr 
> 
> for a list of which drives use the lower performance recording method.
> 
> Regards, Dave Hodgins
> 



Thanks, but my two drives are the CMR type


At any rate, I think I will keep them just for backups