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A raid array that cant rebuild is near 100% worthless (outside of raid 0)

• kstrauser 7y ago
  But if the reason it can't rebuild is that the drives are unfit for purpose, you can't really blame the controller.
  • Wowfunhappy 7y ago
    Which is why the manufacturer shouldn't have branded them as NAS drives!
    • kstrauser 7y ago
      You're preaching to the choir. SMR drives are absolutely not NAS-ready, and it's insulting for WD to pretend otherwise.
      • magicalhippo 7y ago
        > SMR drives are absolutely not NAS-ready DM-SMR at the very least. If the RAID controller (hardware or software) is SMR-capable, then host-managed or host-aware can work. For example, ZFS with the recent support for separate metadata devices[1] seems to be close to what you'd need for it to become SMR-capable. [1]: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/5182 https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/5182
        • kstrauser 7y ago
          Fair distinction.