submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

9 comments fedilink hide all child comments

So I posted not too long ago that I had a drive failure in my RaidZ pool. Ordered a replacement disk (WD RED, purpose built for NAS), and tried resilvering only to see this after a short while...

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/10214 https://www.truenas.com/docs/hardware/notices/componentarticles/wdsmr/ https://blog.westerndigital.com/wd-red-nas-drives/

Turns out WD started pushing out a new disk technology called SMR, that's slower, and fails when rebuilding RAIDs due to heavy write operations, and specifically marketed it towards NAS users? WTF Western Digital?!

Anyway, disk RMAd, and a replacement CMR disk is on the way. I'll never buy WD drives again... Lesson learned the hard way.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If the price is $100 lower if I shuck them, then I will take the slightly inferior warranty.

I don't really like 7200 RPM drives, but I don't have a choice if I'm looking at bigger drives.

this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023

14 points (93.8% liked)

homelab

6478 readers

1 users here now

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]