Update 3/24/2023: Secure Data Recovery provided us with a little more information on the defective HDDs tested. It said that 37 percent of the Western Digital and Seagate drives analyzed featured SMR.

Why it matters: Most enthusiasts have moved on to solid state drives, but mechanical hard drives are still necessary for storing mass amounts of information in data centers. Backblaze has published ...

The size of the hard drive installed in a computer is typically measured in gigabytes, with 1GB equalling 1,000 megabytes. Larger drives may be measured in terabytes, the equivalent of 1,000 gigabytes ...