WD Red drives are now SMR drives?

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Subject: WD Red drives are now SMR drives?
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Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 00:38:04 +0100
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Has anyone else picked up on this? Apparently 1TB and 8TB drives arestill 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?

Cheers,
Wol

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