Wait. Surely the real problem is that this product category exists.
04.12.2025 17:46
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Wait. Surely the real problem is that this product category exists.
BTW, I think any drive should get an annual whole-surface rewite—even SSDs. Also known as a nondestructive write test.
I use DiskFresh for Windows.
www.puransoftware.com/DiskFresh.html
Linux alternative is `badblocks -n`
Yep, good value archive storage. Real issue is/was lack of transparency in marketing.
I bought it as a USB external and shucked it, but nothing in the blurb told normies it would have awful perf as a daily driver. The headline description was, "Expansion desktop drive."
It's supposed to automatically reshingle at idle, but occasionally it gets itself into this weird degraded-perf state
I have a 5-year-old shingled Seagate I use for archiving. Every so often the whole thing slows down to 20MB/s writing and no amount of leaving it idle to fix itself will help.
So, then I run a tool to read and rewrite every sector and it's back to normal. Needs about a day per 2TB😱
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People have a right to speak. They don’t have a right for anyone else to have to listen. That’s why block lists etc exist. I don’t give people the benefit of assuming good faith in the same way I wouldn’t if someone followed me down the street demanding I debate them. I’d call the cops, to be honest
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