Re: WD Red drives are now SMR drives?
From: Piergiorgio Sartor <hidden>
Date: 2020-05-04 16:21:38
On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 12:38:04AM +0100, antlists wrote:
Has anyone else picked up on this? Apparently 1TB and 8TB drives are still CMR, but new drives between 2 and 6 TB are now SMR drives. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/309730-western-digital-comes-clean-shares-which-hard-drives-use-smr What impact will this have on using them in raid arrays?
https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/1313 And the ticket number says it all... bye, -- piergiorgio