What is SMR HDD technology?

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In this way, the disk density is increased.

conventional writes vs. SMR writes

As a result, SMR leaves the previous track narrower, so it allows for higher track density.

This makes SMR a very promising hard disk storage technology.

Cons

Yet, the reliability of SMR varies.

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SATA 3.3 Optimizes SMR HDD Support

SATA-IO organization has upgraded the SATA 3.3 specification in 2016.

Till now, Seagate, Western Digital and HGST have introduced many SMR hard drives.

And most of the current hard drives with a single-platter capacity of 1.25TB are based on the SMR technology.