$26 down from $59. Limit 1 per customer. Decent for 7200rpm hdd
Seagate 1TB BarraCuda 3.5 Hard Drive (ST1000DM010) $26 + $7.99 Delivery ($0 SYD C&C/ mVIP) @ Mwave
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What is CMR? Noob question but I feel like your answer would help others scratching their head too.
CMR drive types are better than SMR, so that’s good,
SMR usually found in external hard disk cases, have lower cache and slower write speeds, slowing down considerably at times.
Conventional Magnetic Recording
See https://www.minitool.com/backup-tips/cmr-vs-smr.html https://www.buffalotech.com/blog/cmr-vs-smr-hard-drives-in-n…
All standard Barracuda drives above 1TB are SMR, so not just limited to external drives, or to Seagate for that matter.
SMR drives are fine for situations where you won't be doing lots of small writes to the drive, eg: large video/audio file archive.To answer the 'what is CMR' question, it stands for conventional magnetic recording, data is written sequentially (or side by side) on the drive with no overlaps, this is what you should be looking for in an every day drive IMO.
SMR stands for shingled magnetic recording, data is written on the drive overlapping a previous piece of data, this method allows for more data to be stored on the drive but at the cost of slower write speeds, especially when it comes to smaller files.SMR is essentially only viable as an archive drive. Write once. And when you don't fill it too much. And not in a raid environment. And if you don't need to restore any sectors (to recover files).
…it's a very niche use case tech haha
Nice one Op. Great for a 1terabyte Batocera image I just downloaded.. Will install into a Dell 7040 SFF for some old school gaming.
Good for an original fat PS2 - I really can't see any other reason to buy a 1TB HDD
it's a grea tdeal but i have no use for this
I mean is a 3.5" 1tb hdd a deal at any price? I genuinely struggle to justify it for any use case.
A super mega struggling design artist that really needs storage space but can't afford something larger? Maybe?
What's the easiest and cheapest way to make this an external drive? Will I just be better off buying an external in that case?
What's the easiest and cheapest way to make this an external drive?
Search ebay for
Usb 3.5 inch hdd caseThere isn't really a good way, because 3.5" drives require 12 V power that can't be supplied by the normal USB connection. So 3.5" docks almost all have a separate power adapter.
You'll end up paying as much for the enclosure as the drive itself, and it won't be portable.
If you planning to have multiple hard drives for cold backup, a hard drive storage case and hard drive docking would be good enough.
Thanks folks. I will look at these options. Docking Station sounds good for my NAS needs.
1TB HDD? Don't waste your money.
Can these be used for xbox storage or something of the sort? I got these as a cheap games drive for the kids' pc's. Normally i'd get a WD Black but can't justify the extra $$$ per TB storage anymore….. so barracuda's will do me fine.
I mean seriously, how much storage do you need?? Put 10× games on it and only play 1 main one…..
Yes, put them in an enclosure and they will be fine for xbox
will this work okay on a NVR 4k camera system (5 cameras)?
Grabbed one! Also noticed they have cheap USB drives, been after a duel drive for a while now and found a 256gb SanDisk Ultra for $49
CMR according to https://www.seagate.com/www-content/datasheets/pdfs/3-5-barr…