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On Sunday, 10 May 2020 21:52:54 BST antlists wrote: |
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> On 10/05/2020 20:11, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> >> I did find a WD Red 8TB drive. It costs a good bit more. It's a good |
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> >> deal but still costs more. I'm going to keep looking. Eventually I'll |
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> >> either spend the money on the drive or find a really good deal. My home |
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> >> directory is at 69% so I got some time left. Of course, my collection |
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> >> is still growing. o_O |
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> > |
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> > In theory the 8TB reds are SMR-free. |
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> I thought I first found it on this list - wasn't it reported that the |
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> 1TB and 8TB were still CMR but everything between was now SMR? Pretty |
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> naff since the SMR drives all refuse to add to a raid array, despite |
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> being advertised as "for NAS and RAID". Under UK law that would be a |
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> slam dunk RMA as "unfit for purpose". |
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> Try the "Red Pro", which apparently are still all CMR. To the best of my |
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> knowledge the Seagate Ironwolves are still SMR-free, and there's also |
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> the Ironwolf Pros. |
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> I've got two Ironwolves, but they're 2018-vintage. I think they're Red |
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> equivalents. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Wol |
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An interesting article mentioning WD Red NAS drives which may actually be SMRs |
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and how latency increases when cached writes need to be transferred into SMR |
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blocks. |
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https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/15/shingled-drives-have-non-shingled-zones-for-caching-writes/ |
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