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Data storage enthusiasts who inadvertently bought SMR HDDs from Western Digital and have encountered performance and/or RAID issues might be out of luck, but the company is making sure that confusion never happens again by publishing which recording technologies (i.e., SMR, CMR) its internal client drives actually use.
For peace of mind, users may want to avoid WD Red WD20EFAX (2 TB), WD30EFAX (3 TB), WD40EFAX (4 TB), and WD60EFAX (6 TB), all of which utilize SMR technology. The same goes for WD Blue WD20EZAZ (2 TB), WD60EZAZ (6 TB), WD10SPZX (1 TB), and WD20SPZX (2 TB). There’s also one WD Black drive that uses SMR – the 1 TB WD10SPSX.
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