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WD Red Plus -> CMR technnology, suitable for NAS WD Red -> SMR technology, slightly cheaper, not suitable for NAS

• kstrauser 1y ago
  …but still marketed for NAS users, alas.
  • m000 1y ago
    I should have been more specific: not suitable for RAID NAS RAID and NAS used to go together when drive capacities were lower. E.g. I had a 9TB NAS with RAID5 at times when 8TB drives were >$500 a pop. These days, NAS does not necessarily imply having a RAID setup. I see a new "build your SFF/RPi NAS" article every week, and it rarely involves RAID. This is because a NAS setup with a single high-capacity drive and an online backup subscription (e.g. Backblaze) is more cost-effective and perfectly adequate for a lot of users, who have no interest in playing the sysadmin. In such a setup, you just need a drive that can withstand continuous operation, and SMR should work fine.
    • kstrauser 1y ago
      That's an interesting point I hadn't considered. To me, NAS implies RAID. You might be right that this is no longer true.