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