On 15/12/2020 12:37, Theo wrote:
> I think Seagate are specifically referring to drives currently on the market,
> not past models.  It's also not unusual for manufacturers not to disclose
> about USB drives, only SATA drives.  Previously SMR was only on very large
> drives (8+GB) but recently it's started creeping into smaller drives (to
> save costs, not that drive prices have come down much).

Hard drive prices will probably increase as volumes decrease due to
SSDs. They will only make the larger and more expensive spinning rust
drives, and anything marketed in smaller sizes is probably going to be a
larger drive where one of the platters has failed QA.

---druck

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