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On 06/02/2022 00:47, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> If it's a WD Red Plus on the label then it's CMR and good. If it's WD |
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> Red without the "Plus" then it's SMR and WD has said don't use them |
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> for this purpose. It's not impossible to run the WD Red in a RAID, but |
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> they tend to fail when resilvering. If it resilvers correctly then it |
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> will probably be OK at least in the short term but you should consider |
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> getting a couple of Red Plus and having them on hand if the plain WD |
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> Red goes bad. |
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Avoid WD ... |
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I've got two 4TB Seagate Ironwolves and a 8TB Toshiba N300. |
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I've also got two 3TB Barracudas, but they're quite old and I didn't |
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know they were a bad choice for raid. From what I can make out, Seagate |
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has now split the Barracuda line in two, and you have the BarraCuda (all |
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SMR) and FireCuda (all CMR) aimed at the desktop niche. So you might |
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well be okay with a FireCuda but neither Seagate nor us raid guys would |
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recommend it. |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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