Does anyone have experience of or comment on the Seagate "shingled"
"archival" hard drives which offer high capacity per physical size and low
cost per capacity.

I'm aware of the functional tradeoffs in their use.
I intend to use it in a non RAID mode (as is intended by Seagate) in a
backup capacity.
What is of interest to me is reliability of initial writing and long term
reliability compared to other drives.
Also, given Seagate's somewhat lower lifetime reliability reputation, how
this class of Seagate drive compares to its various other offerings.

I'm interested in the USB 3 externally housed 8 TB model - selling here for
slightly under $NZ400 =3D $US272 at current exchange rates. Has anyone boug=
ht
these at usefully less than that and if so where and when? Any reliability
issues and has performance been what was expected given the technology.


Russell

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*Good description and review:*

http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_archive_hdd_review_8tb

Toms review

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/seagate-8tb-archive-hdd-enterprise-smr,=
4211.html

SMR - http://www.storagereview.com/what_is_shingled_magnetic_recording_smr


*Backblaze reliability reports:*

Q2 2015
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-for-q2-2015/

Q3 2015 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-q3-2015/
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