On 5/4/20 1:38 AM, 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?
blocksandfiles had quite a few articles recently about this (and it's
not only WD overall, but only WD used them sneakily in NAS dedicated drives)
https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/24/western-digital-smr-drives-policy-change/
(and many preceeding articles)
