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shingled magnetic recording (SMR) hard drive fiasco - inquiring on recommendations
It's been a while since I jumped on the forum but what brings me here is my NAS volume utilization is hovering around 65%. I believe it's good until 80% and then starts to bark at you about storage ...
Well, I just replaced all four of the Seagate BarraCuda 2TB drives (SMR) with Western Digital Black (WD2003FZEX) 2TB drives (CMR). I replaced them one at a time, letting the ReadyNAS fully sync before adding the next. I then did a Defrag and Balance. So far, so good. Time Machine backups have sped up considerably. I wish I'd been aware of the SMR/CMR difference when I install the Seagate drives a year ago. Lesson learned. Perhaps Netgear should remove SMR drives from the "Approved Drives" list?
Good to hear. :) I don't really think the vendors can keep up with drive changes. Even synology and qnap's drive lists don't list drives that work correctly, so a lot of it is up to the user unfortunately.
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