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On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 6:52 PM Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 1:16 PM Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Up until a few weeks ago I would have advised the same, but WD was |
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> > just caught shipping unadvertised SMR in WD Red disks. This is going |
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> > to at the very least impact your performance if you do a lot of |
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> > writes, and it can be incompatible with rebuilds in particular with |
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> > some RAID implementations. Seagate and Toshiba have also been quietly |
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> > using it but not in their NAS-labeled drives and not as extensively in |
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> > general. |
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> I read somewhere that they knew they'd been caught and were coming clean. |
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Yup. WD was caught. Then they first came out with a "you're using it |
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wrong" sort of defense but they did list the SMR drives. Then they |
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came out with a bit more of an even-handed response. The others |
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weren't caught as far as I'm aware but probably figured the writing |
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was on the wall since no doubt everybody and their uncle is going to |
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be benchmarking every drive they own. |
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> Another case of unbridled capitalism and consumers being hurt. |
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I agree. This video has a slightly different perspective. It doesn't |
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disagree on that conclusion, but it does explain more of the industry |
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thinking that got us here (beyond the simple/obvious it saves money): |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSionmmunMs |
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Rich |
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