On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 8:32 AM Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: > > On 17/06/20 05:47, Dale wrote: > > From what I've read, all the drive makers were selling SMR without > > telling anyone at first. It wasn't just WD but Seagate as well. > > Yes, but Seagate didn't start selling SMR drives advertised as > "optimised for raid/nas".THAT is what's so bad about the WD case - those > drives are almost guaranteed to fail the moment anything ELSE goes wrong > elsewhere. >
WD also put it in their Black line. Those are drives marketed to enthusiasts willing to pay a premium for some kind of cutting-edge performance. And they stuck SMR in it. This is like paying for a high-end NVMe and finding out that it just has a class 4 SDcard inside with a PCIe-USB2-SD interface. All the drive manufacturers are scummy at this point though. You have no choice but to buy from them, but I trust new drives as far as I can throw them, and every new drive is getting benchmarked from here on out... -- Rich
