I just checked. You are absolutely correct. My 2 TB drives are EFRX while the SMR ones are EFAX.
Now I'm worried about the two 4 TB WD drives in my Synology. I'm now pissed off again :)
I do see where my post was unnecessarily wordy...
TL;DR
WD RED 2 TB ran for 6 years with random writes.
I thought the biggest complaint against the WD RED 2,4, and 6 TB drives was that the SMR reduced the lifetime of the drive. If that isn't the concern, and the performance meets the numbers...
Man, I was pissed when I read this....
But I've got some anecdotal evidence that perhaps it isn't horrible.
I had a readyNAS that I replaced with a synology in 2013. I just backed up and moved the drives to the synology and recreated the volume and file system. It had 2 hitachi 2 TB drives at...
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