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On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 1:16 PM Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 2:29 PM Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > I've used the WD Reds and WD Golds (no not sold) and never had any |
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problem. |
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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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As I'm not buying anything at this time I didn't pay too much attention. |
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This link is at least similar to what I read earlier. Possibly it's of |
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interest. |
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https://www.extremetech.com/computing/309730-western-digital-comes-clean-shares-which-hard-drives-use-smr |
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Another case of unbridled capitalism and consumers being hurt. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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