[mythtv-users] SMR drives on Mythtv

Shawn Flynn shawn at shawnflynn.com
Wed Jan 31 19:43:36 UTC 2018


According to the Seagate datasheet[1], these are TGMR (Tunneling Giant Magneto-Resistive) head drives not SMR. It's a high density variant of PMR that Seagate brought out circa 2011. I have several of the 2TB and 4TB variants of these drives running and they are very good with sustained writes as you would see while recording in myth.

[1] https://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/barracuda-fam/barracuda-new/en-us/docs/100805918d.pdf



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