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All HDD manufacturers shipped SMR drives without telling anyone, WD was just the one that got the press because they tried lying about it first.
by bityard 7y ago
All HDD manufacturers shipped SMR drives without telling anyone, WD was just the one that got the press because they tried lying about it first.
- ludocode 7y agoNo, Western Digital is the only one that advertised (and continues to advertise!) SMR drives as optimized for RAID. The drives are failing in RAID rebuilds, that's why this is getting press. Seagate and Toshiba are not using SMR in their NAS drives.
- syshum 7y agoWD got press because they shipped SMR drive for a use case that SMR can not work in and peoples drives failed to work properly