Really Chris?
As they say somewhere in baseball, cowboy up. This isn't a courtroom and just because something is hearsay doesn't make it invalid. Besides, if you wait to have seventeen confirmatory sources for every article you won't ever get anything out until it becomes old hat. It seemed pretty clear from the statement; "Barber reckons an interim capacity boost can come from 'shingle writing'..." that this was an interesting potential to be explored and not something "coming to a store near you". I took the Barber quote pertaining to external drives and performance as potentially a reference to back up media used in data centers and not some portable hdd picked up at Wally World. I'm sorry that what HDD said got to you but really, suck it up, take the critique, including this one, for what it is and move on.