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Re: SMR drives

Enterprise IT software generally slowing down computers and actually reducing their useful lifetime so that enterprises have to shorten their IT renewal lifecycles? And all of it for no discernible benefit? Color me surprised.

Re: SMR drives

I disagree here, as SMR drives need long periods of being powered and spun up, without accesses happening, to reshingle. Otherwise data rots in the cmr cache area, and it never gets vacated to the smr area. I do not see why data would rot any faster on the CMR cache area (if any!). Is there any …

Re: SMR drives

To escape SMR HDDs by going into SSDs, isn't it like going from the frying pan into the ashes? I would have presume whatever problems one had with SMR 's "shingles" , you're also likely to have with SSD's large erase block sizes... In fact, I always thought SMR was a reaction to how little people …

Re: SSD question

Yet I have also read that plugging them in does not refresh the charges. Some SSD controllers are known to: A) Perform garbage collection in the background B) Rewrite pages when there are too many read errors for it C) Rewrite pages when there are too many reads since the last write (like many …

Re: DOS on a modern PC

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The damage it caused was deletion of a partition on an unselected hard drive. For the record that ("deletion of a partition" likely just involves the MBR) is trivially recoverable with some utilities such as testdisk ..... However the when MS's FDISK writes over random sectors, that is usually *NOT …

Re: DOS on a modern PC

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Just stay away from FreeDOS. Its fdisk utility is outright dangerous. It ended up deleting partition from wrong hard drive (with my full Windows XP installation I spent days setting up) despite the right hard drive being selected. It configured the 2nd hard drive as expected, but as a side effect …

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