Comments on: The Official FreeNAS Hardware Guide https://www.truenas.com/blog/hardware-guide/ Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:56:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Erik https://www.truenas.com/blog/hardware-guide/#comment-5793 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 22:29:35 +0000 https://www.ixsystems.com/?p=67396#comment-5793 In reply to Maxwell.

WD Red Plus drives are CMR-type and are fine for NAS. It is the less-expensive WD Red drives that are SMR (Shingle Magnetic Recording), and that have extremely long (i.e. unreliable) resilvering times.

]]> By: Maxwell https://www.truenas.com/blog/hardware-guide/#comment-5792 Sun, 05 Jul 2020 04:38:59 +0000 https://www.ixsystems.com/?p=67396#comment-5792 I would ask that references to WD Red drives be removed due to the revelation that WD has been outright lying about the HDD specifications and suitability for NAS, and the ongoing class-action lawsuit.

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