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

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