December 28, 20169 yr My backup strategy includes writing key files to an eSATA/USB3 enclosure for offline/offsite storage. I need to upgrade the disk to an 8TB unit. The price point of the Seagate Archive drives is appealing but I'm not sure they'd work well for this. The initial sync would all be sequential writes, but after that updates will be a combination of new and changed files. Also, I'm writing original files so they'll vary widely in size. I know the SMR drives do well with sequential writes of large files but I'm not sure how they'd do in this case... Performance matters, I don't want to wait forever for updates to be copied. Do you think an SMR drive would work, or would it be better to pay the extra 30-40% for an Ironwolf or WD Red?
December 29, 20169 yr Author Looks like both the Archive and the Ironwolf have non-standard mounting screw points . I don't know that I want to mess with either one of them trying to fit them into an eSATA/USB3 enclosure. Oh well - that limits my options.
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