[walrus01]

From reddit.com/r/datahoarder I don't believe I've seen a single instance of 8, 10 or 12TB consumer USB3 drives coming out of the plastic case as a model that is shingled recording. The average consumer trying to copy many dozens of GB onto an external drive would not tolerate SMR write performance.

[jonah-archive]

Some of the disks in the market over the last few years were not well-labeled in terms of revealing their SMR internals, and use larger media caches to disguise write performance issues (at least, until they don't). For example, the Seagate STGY8000400 is an external 8TB SMR drive. But the industry as a whole is moving to host-managed SMR, so hopefully that specific issue with external disks will soon go away.