On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 1:38 PM Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
Truthfully I don't think WD or the others understood the problem early on. At first they denied there was a problem, and actually I don't think there really is a problem setting up a RAID system using an SMR drive. Where the problem showed up was during resivering which isn't something everyone does every day. It was during resilvering that the SMR drives failed, and once WD (and others) saw the data WD rebranded the Red series in Red and Red Plus, with the Plus version being CMR. I've resilvered using a couple of Red Plus 4TB drives and everything is good so far. My 2 cents, Mark
