On 12 August 2016 at 15:17, Brett Parker iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk wrote:
Not all high capacity drives are shingled. There are now WD Red drives of the 8T variety. They are Much More Expensive.
The main purpose of the drive is to act as off-site backup storage for files from work. Once the initial copy is complete it'll be maintained via our work's VDSL line so write speed will become almost irrelevant assuming it can keep up with our uplink speed (not sure what it is but I'd guess around 20Mbps). Of-course the initial copy is painful.
I also have data on other non-shingled drives which I'm moving onto the 8TB temporarily so that they can be reformatted and have the data transferred back - again painful now but once done it won't be an issue any more.
From what I've read, shingled drives are no more or less reliable than
non-shingled, is that about right?