Western Digital now Explains Which HDD Models Use SMR
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Kaarme
It does explain why there are WD Red and WD Red Pro. It was still a nasty surprise, but in retrospect I'd say experts should have expected there to be a significant reason for the Pro series to exist.
Brit90
Kaarme
Crazy Joe
Just to be clear: These are the only WD Red drives that use or have used SMR? Any previous models are non-SMR? Or should the list be extended for prior drives in that series?
Because I have 4TB WD Red EFRX drives in my NAS, which I'm now curious about.
Astyanax
Denial
SHS
Well being that WD has more balls then Seagate who still lying out there teeth by call it TGMR when it really just SMR which are very bad for steam game library I know I have 8TB Barracuda with error, may my next drive will be an WD
schmidtbag
As if we need one more reason to not buy HDDs.
rflair
Moderator
nevcairiel
Lukcily I seem to have skipped SMR Red Drives. Got a bunch EFRX Red Drives that are getting to the age where I want to replace them, and the only EFAX drives I have are 8TB - ie. above the SMR boundary.