Techie Warning:

> Modern large drives are supposed to have gone to SMR (shingle
> magnetic recording)

Or HAMR (heat-assisted), or possibly both in the same drive.

> Unless you really need a lot of storage, a large hd is an affectation.

*Agree*. The problem here is that, once people have a huge drive, they neglect (and then forget) to throw away date-expired data, and then back up everything "just in case". I know I do.