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On 27 March 2015 at 08:36, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net> wrote:

>
>>
>> I suspect so, but the drives are designed to be used as "tape-on-disk"
>> backup (hence "archive"), i. e. long sequential writes. Using
>> these drives for anything else seems as insane as using the "video
>> recording"-grade drives for data, in my opinion?
>>
>
> what is a difference between "video recording" and normal SATA drives?
> except pricing of course.
>


The "video recording" HDDs have no, among other things, internal "long
recovery" mechanisms (hence the price) because unlike "data", "video"
doesn't really care if small part of a frame gets corrupted on disk=E2=80=
=A6


--=20
Igor M.