Add Toshiba p300 drives to smr submarine: Toshiba desktop disk drives have shingles too – Blocks and Files
At least they are somewhat honest compared to Seagate & WD. Also, kudos to Blocks and Files for doing the research.Add Toshiba p300 drives to smr submarine: Toshiba desktop disk drives have shingles too – Blocks and Files
gotta second this sentiment! - shingle-gate !At least they are somewhat honest compared to Seagate & WD. Also, kudos to Blocks and Files for doing the research.
I do see where my post was unnecessarily wordy...Maybe I missed the point, but what does your story have to do with SMR?
Just doing random writes is not the problem. The "DM" (device managed) part of DM-SMR deals with this as long as your rate of writes does not go faster than their caching/management of actual writes to the drive can handle.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 they advertise, then I'm not sure why folks are upset.
These drives are sold as 24/7 & raid drives and at a premium (25-30% in Germany).then I'm not sure why folks are upset
Go ahead and merge threads if needed. I'm fine with it.At least they are somewhat honest compared to Seagate & WD. Also, kudos to Blocks and Files for doing the research.
PS. I noticed that there's another thread on the same subject, don't know about @urbanracer34 but I'm fine if they are merged.
@Patrick
I just checked. You are absolutely correct. My 2 TB drives are EFRX while the SMR ones are EFAX.That WD RED drive you have been using for 6 years is not an SMR drive though. So I still don't get your point.
That's a pity, I was considering getting some 4TB Toshiba N300's for a QNAP TR-002.Add Toshiba p300 drives to smr submarine: Toshiba desktop disk drives have shingles too – Blocks and Files
The problematic Toshiba's are p300, not N300That's a pity, I was considering getting some 4TB Toshiba N300's for a QNAP TR-002.
Is there any non-SMR 4TB drives?