Toshiba, Seagate Shipping Slower SMR Drives Without Disclosure Too

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Sneaky Marketing Redux: Toshiba, Seagate Shipping Slower SMR Drives Without Disclosure, Too
Given that SMR drives suffer from abysmal random write performance, which is a key type of write pattern that impacts performance in desktop OSs, the drives will result in noticeably slower performance for PC users.