Hello STH community how are you doing? I brought last Sept, 4TB elements drives which turned out are all WD40EMAZ, finding out these are all SMR drives and I've currently got them in a raid-z1 array.
With a drive failure and the rebuild times are quite long I was wondering sort of what would my options be on these encase I get one that failed. Unfortunately I don't think I can just replace these for something like IronWolf drives due to funds all at once.
Going forward would freenas be okay with the SMR drives or should I look into another solution say windows storage spaces or unraid?
With a drive failure and the rebuild times are quite long I was wondering sort of what would my options be on these encase I get one that failed. Unfortunately I don't think I can just replace these for something like IronWolf drives due to funds all at once.
Going forward would freenas be okay with the SMR drives or should I look into another solution say windows storage spaces or unraid?