markymark832
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Shingled hard drives have non-shingled zones for caching writes – Blocks and Files
The revelation that some WD Red NAS drives are shipped with DM-SMR (Drive-Managed Shingled Magnetic Recording) prompted us to ask more detailed questions to the Blocks & Files reader who alerted us to the issue. Alan Brown, a British university network manager, has a high degree of SMR smarts...
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Probably loads of people will understand this better than me, it came up on my news feed, does the article mean WD reds aren't engineered for zfs?