On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 1:16 PM Rich Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 2:29 PM Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I've used the WD Reds and WD Golds (no not sold) and never had any problem. > > > > Up until a few weeks ago I would have advised the same, but WD was > just caught shipping unadvertised SMR in WD Red disks. This is going > to at the very least impact your performance if you do a lot of > writes, and it can be incompatible with rebuilds in particular with > some RAID implementations. Seagate and Toshiba have also been quietly > using it but not in their NAS-labeled drives and not as extensively in > general.
I read somewhere that they knew they'd been caught and were coming clean. As I'm not buying anything at this time I didn't pay too much attention. This link is at least similar to what I read earlier. Possibly it's of interest. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/309730-western-digital-comes-clean-shares-which-hard-drives-use-smr Another case of unbridled capitalism and consumers being hurt. Cheers, Mark
