[Highest Capacity Hard Drive with no SMR?]

1 hour ago, johnnie.black said:

They are, and SMR is also PMR (with SMR), that 's why now CMR is preferred when referring to conventional PMR drives, for example:

 

https://blog.westerndigital.com/wd-red-nas-drives/

Only problem is that recently WD has been sending out SMR drives as WD Red NAS drives, which can get ugly fast.

https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/23/western-digital-blog-wd-red-nas-smr-drives-overuse/

[Highest Capacity Hard Drive with no SMR?]

On 12/16/2019 at 2:16 AM, johnnie.black said:

CMR is now used instead of PMR since technically SMR is also PMR (with SMR), so to avoid confusion drives now are called CMR or SMR, 12 and 14TB WD Gold are CMR.

Actually, that is incorrect. CMR and PMR are technically the same.

"PMR, also known as conventional magnetic recording (CMR), works by aligning the poles of the magnetic elements, which represent bits of data, perpendicularly to the surface of the disk. Magnetic tracks are written side-by-side, without overlapping."