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The WD Reds are still marketted as RAID compatible to this day, despite the fact that they are SMRs. |
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Julien |
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Mar 3, 2022, 16:08 by markknecht@×××××.com: |
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> Truthfully I don't think WD or the others understood the problem early |
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> on. At first they denied there was a problem, and actually I don't think |
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> there really is a problem setting up a RAID system using an SMR drive. |
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> Where the problem showed up was during resivering which isn't |
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> something everyone does every day. It was during resilvering that |
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> the SMR drives failed, and once WD (and others) saw the data |
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> WD rebranded the Red series in Red and Red Plus, with the Plus |
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> version being CMR. I've resilvered using a couple of Red Plus 4TB |
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> drives and everything is good so far. |
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> My 2 cents, |
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> Mark |
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