In context: Shingled magnetic recording (SMR) can increase storage density on hard drives by partly overlapping data tracks, but it also brings slower performance in writing operations compared to ...

it seems that every western digital hard drive i have ever set my hands on has died a horible death. has western digital finally overcome this plague? i admit i haven't used western digital drives ...

WD drives appear above average in Storage Review's reliability database. There are a two individual WD drives that are worse than average in that survey-for the most part the 8MB cache drives are fine ...