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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?
Date: Sun, 3 May 2020 15:52:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK2H+ecrEHG9dRf8ucVNt-4JYH8muR651-p1YQMqrWVEOV_xDQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGfcS_kv_qc7kQ8VwaCmNmszScbn-OKm1o=CFt5_kzZROHZMMA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 1:16 PM Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 2:29 PM Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've used the WD Reds and WD Golds (no not sold) and never had any
problem.
> >
>
> Up until a few weeks ago I would have advised the same, but WD was
> just caught shipping unadvertised SMR in WD Red disks.  This is going
> to at the very least impact your performance if you do a lot of
> writes, and it can be incompatible with rebuilds in particular with
> some RAID implementations.  Seagate and Toshiba have also been quietly
> using it but not in their NAS-labeled drives and not as extensively in
> general.

I read somewhere that they knew they'd been caught and were coming clean.
As I'm not buying anything at this time I didn't pay too much attention.

This link is at least similar to what I read earlier. Possibly it's of
interest.

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/309730-western-digital-comes-clean-shares-which-hard-drives-use-smr

Another case of unbridled capitalism and consumers being hurt.

Cheers,
Mark

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-03 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-03  5:44 [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose? Caveman Al Toraboran
2020-05-03  7:53 ` hitachi303
2020-05-03  9:23   ` Wols Lists
2020-05-03 17:55     ` Caveman Al Toraboran
2020-05-03 18:04       ` Dale
2020-05-03 18:29       ` Mark Knecht
2020-05-03 20:16         ` Rich Freeman
2020-05-03 22:52           ` Mark Knecht [this message]
2020-05-03 23:23             ` Rich Freeman
2020-05-03 21:22       ` antlists
2020-05-03  9:14 ` Wols Lists
2020-05-03  9:21   ` Caveman Al Toraboran
2020-05-03 14:27 ` Jack
2020-05-03 21:46   ` Caveman Al Toraboran
2020-05-03 22:50     ` hitachi303
2020-05-04  0:29       ` Caveman Al Toraboran
2020-05-04  7:50         ` hitachi303
2020-05-04  0:46       ` Rich Freeman
2020-05-04  7:50         ` hitachi303
2020-05-04  8:18           ` William Kenworthy
2020-05-03 23:19     ` antlists
2020-05-04  1:33       ` Caveman Al Toraboran
2020-05-03 20:07 ` Rich Freeman
2020-05-03 21:32   ` antlists
2020-05-03 22:34     ` Rich Freeman

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