jensmander Posted April 16, 2020 Share #1 Posted April 16, 2020 If you own a WD Red NAS SMR drive or plan to buy one you should read this article: https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/14/wd-red-nas-drives-shingled-magnetic-recording/ Quote Some users are experiencing problems adding the latest WD Red NAS drives to RAID arrays and suspect it is because they are actually shingled magnetic recording drives submarined into the channel. Update: https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/24/western-digital-smr-drives-policy-change/ 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satdream Posted July 22, 2020 Share #2 Posted July 22, 2020 SMR official lists 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
test4321 Posted February 16, 2021 Share #3 Posted February 16, 2021 These companies lost their sense of smell. Submarining these SMR drives as normal drives is a big ******* you to customers. I have older 4TB Barracudas which can sustain 150mb/s no problems. I bought 8TB barracuda (2019 model) and its an SMR drive - awful performance after about 300GB. Literally 1-50MB/s on a single, large RAR file. Now everybody has to guess if some of these models are SMR or not. Its bullshit. Thanks for posting those articles! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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