I would think that one would typically expect NAS drives in particular not to use SMR, especially since SMR is known to be problematic in RAID setups, etc. Not

I would think that one would typically expect NAS drives in particular not to use SMR, especially since SMR is known to be problematic in RAID setups, etc. Not to mention the write performance issues. It's so frustrating that all that was needed to avoid most of this was some transparency. At least list in the specs that they have SMR. It's essentially lying by omission. But I'd probably go a step further and say that marketing an SMR drive as a NAS drive is user-hostile and destined to cause problems