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> They must have lost a fair amount of sales?

(Anecdotally) Not from me. SMR or not, their easystore drives that you can shuck are cheap. Between buying a cheap drive and buying something else, I like to spend less money, so I'd choose the easystores.

Granted, I don't know how much has changed with the easystores since the SMR debacle since I've not really been in the hard drive market for a while.

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AFAIK people who were pissed about the reds getting switched to SMR are disjoint from the people who shuck stuff. The latter group usually verifies the drives that they get, because you're not guaranteed to get a drive when shucking.

For anyone else unfamiliar: shucking is buying a USB harddrive purely for the drive inside, discarding the outer case/USB interface https://www.datahoards.com/whats-the-meaning-of-shucking-a-h...

> discarding the outer case/USB interface

I'm not really much of a shucker but I do it from time to time. That being said, I do save the SATA board and power supply (and USB) that I get when I finish the shuck. I haven't had to yet, but it possibly could be handy for connecting up an internal 3.5" drive externally, like if I want to quickly get some data off of it or something.

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