From: nunojsilva@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 2026-01-03, c186282 wrote:   
      
   > On 1/2/26 21:00, Nuno Silva wrote:   
   >> On 2026-01-03, Lars Poulsen wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> A month ago I decided that I needed to replace the hardware under my   
   >>> Linux Server/Workstation. As I was gaming out the migration, I realized   
   >>> that the hard drives were 10-15 years old, and SMART declared them to   
   >>> be "Pre-Fail - Old Age", so I bought a couple of new 2TB Seagate   
   >>> Barracuda drives [...]   
   >>   
   >> Where is the CMR cut-off in Seagate's Barracuda offering, between 1 and   
   >> 2 TB or between 2 and 3 TB?   
   >   
   >   You can get WD Golds up to 20tb ... Blacks up to 10tb.   
      
   Yeah, but it's a shame that some other product lines which used to have   
   decent offerings now don't.   
      
   In this specific case, IIRC at least 1TB 3.5" and 1 and 2 TB 2.5" under   
   the "Barracuda" line would be SMR, last I checked.   
      
   With WD, yes, I think I recall I'd probably have to buy from the Black   
   line now. Or at least one time the only good offering in a store was a   
   WD Black.   
      
   >   And yea, DOES pay to run SMART every so often.   
      
   (While I can't say I have much experience in this area,)   
      
   And to run it through time, right from when the disk starts being used,   
   so that you can see variations, not just what gets flagged by the   
   utility checking SMART data. Check what you want logged regularly if   
   using smartd, for example.   
      
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