Hi,
A drive in my RAIDZ1 (5 x WD 4TB EFRX) began to throw SMART errors yesterday. I had a cold hotspare (another WD 4TB EFXR) and replaced it with no issues.
Now I want to get another hotspare just in case. Problem with WD is SMR with EFAX models, andI don't want to get those. And also, I don't know if EFXR models being sold today are "current" (ie, still sold and supported by WD).
So I was looking into Ironwolf instead. By my question is: do these two manufacturers models share the same exact geometry if I were to replace one of the WD's with an Ironwolf one? I'm afraid there are slight differences in geometry and that one is, say 3.9999TB and the other one is 4TB. I'm not too worried about speeds and things like that, I've already found out that should be fine.
Thanks!
A drive in my RAIDZ1 (5 x WD 4TB EFRX) began to throw SMART errors yesterday. I had a cold hotspare (another WD 4TB EFXR) and replaced it with no issues.
Now I want to get another hotspare just in case. Problem with WD is SMR with EFAX models, andI don't want to get those. And also, I don't know if EFXR models being sold today are "current" (ie, still sold and supported by WD).
So I was looking into Ironwolf instead. By my question is: do these two manufacturers models share the same exact geometry if I were to replace one of the WD's with an Ironwolf one? I'm afraid there are slight differences in geometry and that one is, say 3.9999TB and the other one is 4TB. I'm not too worried about speeds and things like that, I've already found out that should be fine.
Thanks!