4TB seagate ST4000DM005 on amazon @79.99

[gardar]

Quite a price drop according to camelcamelcamel

Amazon.com: Seagate BarraCuda Internal Hard Drive 4TB SATA 6Gb/s 256MB Cache 3.5-Inch (ST4000DM005): Computers & Accessories

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Seagate BarraCuda Internal Hard Drive 4TB SATA 6Gb/s 256MB Cache 3.5-Inch (ST4000DM005) (B01LNJBA50)

Amazon price tracking & price history for Seagate BarraCuda Internal Hard Drive 4TB SATA 6Gb/s 256MB Cache 3.5-Inch (ST4000DM005) (B01LNJBA50)

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[eduncan911]

SMR drive

Seagate 'submarines' SMR into 3 Barracuda drives and a Desktop HDD – Blocks and Files

Some Seagate Barracuda Compute and Desktop disk drives use shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology which can exhibit slow data write speeds. But Seagate documentation does not spell this out. Yesterday we reported Western Digital has submarined SMR drives into certain WD Red NAS drives. The...

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And they were forced to publish a page on SMR:

CMR and SMR Hard Drives | Seagate US

See the list of recording technology utilized on our internal hard drives

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[gardar]

Is the m005 smr too? The article doesn't list it and seagate website doesn't really specify... Unless all their barracuda drives are smr

 

[aij]

Unless all their barracuda drives are smr

Pretty sure they've been selling Barracuda drives since long before SMR.

Hard drive prices seem kind of crazy now... I remember paying similar for the 4 TB 2.5" ST4000LM024 several years ago, back when Burstcoin was worth mining.

 

[sic0048]

Already back to higher price.

 

[gardar]

Already back to higher price.

You can get the ST4000DMZ04/DM004 for 75$

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07D9C7SQH/