[mythtv-users] SMR drives on Mythtv

[John Pilkington]

On 31/01/18 19:43, Shawn Flynn wrote:
> 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
> 

FWIW:  The discoverers of the effect behind this technology got the 
physics Nobel prize 2007.