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No, these were 100% CMR drives. I checked them very closely when the scandal broke and confirmed that mine were not shingled.
by kstrauser 3y ago
No, these were 100% CMR drives. I checked them very closely when the scandal broke and confirmed that mine were not shingled.
- vel0city 3y agoHuh, weird, because that's 100% the failure mode friends of mine who did have shingled drives experienced. Maybe your drives were shingled despite labeling suggesting otherwise, or maybe they had whatever potential different error you got without it being the SMR that killed the arrays in the end. Either way it made me never want to use WD for drives in arrays and not trust their labeling anymore. "WD Red" drives lost all meaning to me; who knows what they're doing inside.
- kstrauser 3y ago> Maybe your drives were shingled despite labeling suggesting otherwise I'm not ruling that out. The whole debacle was so amazingly tonedeaf that I wouldn't be surprised if they did that behind the scenes. I wrote this at the time: https://honeypot.net/2020/04/15/staying-away-from.html https://honeypot.net/2020/04/15/staying-away-from.html