Julien Roy wrote: > This is exactly what happened to me. I unknowingly bought SMR drives > (I didn't know the difference, but the drives were "RAID" rated, > whatever that means. SMR drives obviously aren't "RAID" anything.) > Well, when was the time to expand my RAID, it wouldn't work. > Needless to say, I will not be buying any product from WD anymore. > > Julien > >
>From my understanding, it wasn't just WD. I don't think any of them alerted people as to what they were getting. I recently bought a WD and will again because I could have easily bought a Seagate or any other brand that was SMR without knowing it. WD just so happened to be the first one I found with a good price is all. Still, I don't like that any of them pulled this stealth release tho. For most, it most likely didn't matter but for some, it was a disaster. Possibly a costly disaster at that. We learned tho. Dale :-) :-)
