Shingled Hard Drive (SMR) Concerns?

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JimmyJames

Are there any performance or other concerns using FreeFileSync on a shingled (SMR) drive? Other than the usual SMR write issues that is.

The internal drive model is Seagate Barracuda Compute ST6000DM003 inside a Seagate Backup Plus Hub external USB3 case (STEL6000100). The drive is formatted with NTFS and may be run under Win10 and/or Linux. It has a 256MB cache so earlier issues with SMR drives using small caches seem to be addressed. But I'm still thinking that with FFS the cache will be taxed and show up any cache flushing issues that typically slow SMR drives.