WD 6TB My Passport Portable External Hard Drive, Works with USB-C Devices, Includes Backup Software with Password Protection - WDBY3J0060BGY-WESN
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Are there any portable HDDs above 4tb that don't have this problem? I need one for offsite Nas backup
Get a portable SSD with good write/read speeds that doesn't get hot with prolonged use. 6TB is a huge amount to keep backed up nowadays.
Your better off having a PC run 24/7 with a private cloud server so you can access files.
Very easy to buy a good hdd and a case for it.
No reason to limit yourself to 2.5" for that use case.
yes - I use the 2.5" drive for convenience as it doesnt need a power supply. There's a (expensive) Sandisk 8tb SSD but that also requires external power.
Been looking to get an external WD and didn't know about this so thanks for the info.
After resetting it, were you able to clear the DM-SMR and as a result remove the problem permanently?
After resetting, it goes back to being like new so that means you can fill it up again and after getting almost full it would start being slow again. I think these drives have 256 MB blocks of shingled sections, if you update a small file at the beginning, you have to read the entire 256 MB and write the entire updated 256 MB back even though you may have only changed the first 1 MB / 256 MB. Just avoid anything SMR, get an SSD even if it's more expensive. HDDs are mosty good if you're buying large ones like 16+ TB. This one may be OK if you just use it to write a backup of eg photos to it once, put it in a box and never touch it again.
Good drive for a PlayStation 5. You can store PS4 and PS5 games on it, you can play PS4 games off it fine and PS5 games only take about 10m to move to the internal storage or SSD for play.
I have the 5TB version from B&H (110USD). It's SMR so it starts off being able to write 80 MiB/s but once it's been used a bit/filled up and had some space freed, it will slow down to about 1 MiB/s or even less. I had to encrypt and reset it using the WD Discovery app to be able to restore 80 MiB/s writes.
It was a nightmare, I was unaware of what SMR meant and my computer took almost an hour to shutdown because it was busy writing to the RAM buffers to the disk. Also experienced corruption and data loss because the first time I wasn't aware what's going on and just forced a power off.