On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 02:01:08 +0000, bob prohaska wrote:

> It might help to check these:
> https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/list-of-known-smr-drives.
141/
> https://itigic.com/smr-hard-drive-this-is-the-list-of-models/
> https://nascompares.com/2020/04/16/your-wd-red-nas-hard-drives-might-be-
using-smr-what-you-need-to-know/
>
Thanks for the links: most useful.

Its interesting that the WD blurb on Elements portable USB drives
basically says "the drive type inside is whatever we had in the stock bin
when we did the production run", so either I got lucky, since mine seem
to give fairly consistent backup times, or the current production policy
was introduced after I got mine in early 2019.

> I don't know which to believe.
>
My guess: the PHBs and bean counters have taken over, as in too many
other companies, and are shitting on their customers, and probably staff
too, because that way they can stuff more in their wallets.


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