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. Cheers, Wol

