On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 23:51:30 +0000, bob prohaska wrote:

> It remains  fairly difficult if I want a 2.5" drive rather than 3.5".
> Is there some special  trick for finding them? By pure luck I found
> this:
> https://www.toshiba-storage.com/products/toshiba-internal-hard-drives-
l200/
>
> which reports that these drives use CMR:
> HDWJ110UZSVA,
> HDWK105UZSVA,
> HDWJ105UZSVA
>
From the stuff you posted it appears that all WD 2.5" 500GB Blue and
Black drives and 1GB Red drives are CMR.

Similarly all WD 3.5" drives of 1TB or smaller are CMR and so are larger
Red Pro, Black and Purple.

That is for drives made in the first part of 2020 - after that its
anybody's guess


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