Thanks for helping me understand the demographic affected. This isn't a rebuttal, but I hope you don't lose anything, so you should know that a NAS is not a ba

Thanks for helping me understand the demographic affected. This isn't a rebuttal, but I hope you don't lose anything, so you should know that a NAS is not a backup. They provide redundancy and availability, but no number or type of disks will save your data from being lost in a fire or flood if you keep it all in one place. SMR drives, if you know what you're buying them for, are perfect for backups and write few, read many applications, which it kind of sounds like you want. They're not inferior or at premature risk of failure, just specialized. Also, I'm not saying you have no right to be unhappy with finding out why, but were you really dissatisfied with the performance of your NAS before these hyperbolic exposes went out?