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On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 1:38 PM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Julien Roy wrote: |
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> > This is exactly what happened to me. I unknowingly bought SMR drives |
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> > (I didn't know the difference, but the drives were "RAID" rated, |
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> > whatever that means. SMR drives obviously aren't "RAID" anything.) |
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> > Well, when was the time to expand my RAID, it wouldn't work. |
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> > Needless to say, I will not be buying any product from WD anymore. |
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> > Julien |
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> From my understanding, it wasn't just WD. I don't think any of them |
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> alerted people as to what they were getting. I recently bought a WD and |
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> will again because I could have easily bought a Seagate or any other |
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> brand that was SMR without knowing it. WD just so happened to be the |
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> first one I found with a good price is all. |
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> Still, I don't like that any of them pulled this stealth release tho. |
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> For most, it most likely didn't matter but for some, it was a disaster. |
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> Possibly a costly disaster at that. |
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> We learned tho. |
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> Dale |
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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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