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They do. Corresponding 2-6TB Blue drives are also SMR and that are shipped inside external drives. Only Reds got the attention because of ZFS issues. I suspect
by kasabali 6y ago
They do. Corresponding 2-6TB Blue drives are also SMR and that are shipped inside external drives. Only Reds got the attention because of ZFS issues.
I suspect Blue and Red drive have a lot of common in manufacturing they switched all drives in same capacity together.
- andoriyu 6y agoRed is getting attention not just because of ZFS, but because Reds are targeted and marketed for workloads that don't work well with SMR. It was well known before that Red are trash compared to Red Pro which IIRC are rebranded HGST DeskStar NAS.