SMR Drives compatible with Drivepool ? in Hardware Posted April 26, 2020 Western Digital has started to use a version of SMR Hard Drives in their Series of WD Red Hard Drives, long a favorite of home built servers and NAS enthusiasts https://blog.westerndigital.com/wd-red-nas-drives/ There has been considerable concern about SMR drives - especially used in a RAID - problems during rebuilding specifically I see some discussion here in the past on SMR Tech hard drives and Drivepool - What is the current thinking ? My thought is that Drivepool ,especially with SSD cache enabled, should be more tolerant of drive types ? - Correct
SMR Drives compatible with Drivepool ?
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Western Digital has started to use a version of SMR Hard Drives in their Series of WD Red Hard Drives, long a favorite of home built servers and NAS enthusiasts
https://blog.westerndigital.com/wd-red-nas-drives/
There has been considerable concern about SMR drives - especially used in a RAID - problems during rebuilding specifically
I see some discussion here in the past on SMR Tech hard drives and Drivepool - What is the current thinking ?
My thought is that Drivepool ,especially with SSD cache enabled, should be more tolerant of drive types ? - Correct