Originally Posted by computersavvy

I can't read the spec sheets in german. But please check the specs.
Most of the sellers (Seagate, WD, and others) have two different technologies used for the disks.

I consider the ones using SMR are trash for long term use due to the way the data is "shingled" on the disk and while they work well for a short time as the disk gets more than ~25% full the write speed slows way down. Drives using the CMR writing do not have that problem. I have mostly gone to buying the enterprise drives since a lot of the home use drives use the SMR tech. Enterprise drives cost more but they almost exclusively use the CMR recording technology.

Here are a couple links to data sheets that show how to tell which tech is used here in the US.

This is the data sheet links for seagate 2.5 in form factor and as you can see all of the Barracuda 2.5 drives use SMR recording technology.

Here is the data sheet for the WD Blue 2.5 drives and you can see your chosen model is also SMR while the 500G and smaller drives still use CMR.
According to this guide the second one you linked is also SMR tech.

In my opinion SMR is most useful in a write-once-read-mostly scenario.

While SSDs cost more they do not suffer from the physical limitations of the drive recording tech currently used for the less expensive hard drives. Unfortunately I cannot find any information on HDD drives for laptops that are definitely CMR tech except the smaller ones 500G and less.

Originally Posted by ondoho

This is strangely similar to this:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ly-4175695546/
Funny OP should have a broken USB stick and broken internal hard drive at the same time.

Originally Posted by computersavvy

I can't read the spec sheets in german. But please check the specs.
Most of the sellers (Seagate, WD, and others) have two different technologies used for the disks.

I consider the ones using SMR are trash for long term use due to the way the data is "shingled" on the disk and while they work well for a short time as the disk gets more than ~25% full the write speed slows way down. Drives using the CMR writing do not have that problem. I have mostly gone to buying the enterprise drives since a lot of the home use drives use the SMR tech. Enterprise drives cost more but they almost exclusively use the CMR recording technology.

Here are a couple links to data sheets that show how to tell which tech is used here in the US.

This is the data sheet links for seagate 2.5 in form factor and as you can see all of the Barracuda 2.5 drives use SMR recording technology.

Here is the data sheet for the WD Blue 2.5 drives and you can see your chosen model is also SMR while the 500G and smaller drives still use CMR.
According to this guide the second one you linked is also SMR tech.

In my opinion SMR is most useful in a write-once-read-mostly scenario.

While SSDs cost more they do not suffer from the physical limitations of the drive recording tech currently used for the less expensive hard drives. Unfortunately I cannot find any information on HDD drives for laptops that are definitely CMR tech except the smaller ones 500G and less.

Originally Posted by computersavvy

SMR is "shingled magnetic recording" which seems to be used for all the 2.5 form factor drives of >500G capacity. Involves reading and rewriting data in layers on the disk.

It may work well for you for some time, but lots of users have seen major degradation of speeds when the drives are being written to with large files. I seem to recall one case where a user was copying an image of one 1 TB drive to another and it took ~4 days to do that. Unreasonable when I can copy 3 TB of data between drives in < 8 hours at USB speeds.

That 2TB drive may very well serve your needs, but personally I would choose the greater expense of the SSD and consider it a good investment for the larger capacity storage and reliable speeds.

Originally Posted by computersavvy

Most of the time a super large HDD for a laptop is not needed. That changes if it is your daily driver and is used constantly.

The SSD should be good for you for a long time and you might be surprised at the difference in time needed to boot and for other access when compared to the HDD.