Re: new harddrive degraded speed
Mark Allums wrote:
> Is it an SMR drive? Interface speed may not be too critical if it is.
WD says it is a CMR drive, and that they are separating the Red
designations to make it clear to consumers which are SMR and
which are CMR because people don't like buying SMR by accident,
which surprises WD for some reason.
In any case, the drive can't saturate 3 or 6 Gb/s, and would
probably not be noticeably different with a SATA-1 1.5Gb/s
connection. 135 MB/s seems to be a normal transfer rate for it.
-dsr-
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