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The catch with shucking drives from cheap NAS systems like from WD is that those drives have a strong likelihood of being SMR drives instead of CMR. Basically,
by gjsman-1000 4y ago
The catch with shucking drives from cheap NAS systems like from WD is that those drives have a strong likelihood of being SMR drives instead of CMR. Basically, they'll work fine until something goes wrong requiring, say, a RAID rebuild, and then you'll be out weeks while they rebuild begging that they don't fail in the process because the random write performance is abominable.
- Nextgrid 4y agoSMR only affects writes, so assuming you're originally fine with SMR (let's say you only write to the pool very sparingly), you can start off with SMR but then use CMR for replacements.