WD SMR Drive Issues
This cluster focuses on reliability problems with Western Digital hard drives, especially undisclosed SMR technology in CMR-labeled products causing failures and lawsuits, with users comparing WD to HGST, Seagate, Toshiba, and others using Backblaze stats and personal experiences.
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Any particular reason they don't use Western Digital drives ?
Might be temporary? How about if you look at different drives like seagate enterprise or HGST or Toshiba?
You bought a Western Digital drive too, eh?
Curious to see what WD / SanDisk has to say about this
Could be Seagate and SanDisk too ...
Ugh, that's sad. The 10 year old drives for me are WD:RED's so can't complain about the old ones.Looking at the Pro/Plus PDF's it seems that they do specify CMR officially so sneaking in SMR disks sounds like lawsuit material.I'll probably go for them again, just be vary with research!
Maybe, maybe not?https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/wd-launches-...
Be warned - all SATA drives there are SMR.
You are not wrong and I knew better but I was build for first time and bought all at same time. Now it's a mix of HGST, WD, Toshiba. Some are 34000h, with no issues. The WD is slower when data scrubbing but I don't trust WD for many years and that one was because other vendors were out of that size. I don't really know who to trust in that space any more so it's Toshiba for me on any new replacements.
Good info, but just double checking... HGST is different than Seagate drives right? Or did Seagate buy HGST and now they are crap too?