hmm so you are un-amused by un-necessary hyphens. i don’t un-derstand why.

i have had SMR drives slow to about 2MB/s with sustained sequential writes. “noticeably bad” really undersells how terrible they are.

the 3.5" barracuda disks are SMR. the barracuda pro disks are all CMR. https://www.seagate.com/products/cmr-smr-list/

you wouldn’t understand it if you’ve never had enough caffeine to smear your feeble human mind across the endless plane of the past, present, and future