[Yokolos]

Probably no different than current drives? Who would pay more for worse drives? Particularly in enterprise, where defect rates and error rates make a much bigger difference and quickly add up across such a large number of drives.

[cookiengineer]

> Probably no different than current drives? Who would pay more for worse drives? Particularly in enterprise, where defect rates and error rates make a much bigger difference and quickly add up across such a large number of drives.

Western Digital would like to have a word about shingled magnetic recording drives.

[anonymars]

Ha, the ones they mixed in with conventional drives, while still giving them the same model names and numbers? That was a good time, thanks WD

[gruez]

SMR drives aren't worse in any of those metrics except random writes. Yes, people running NAS with them got screwed over, but for your typical use case of storing movies they're fine.