That 9 day and almost 14-hour rebuild means that using the WD Red 4TB SMR drive inadvertently in an array would lead to your data being vulnerable for around 9 days longer than the WD Red 4TB CMR drive or Seagate IronWolf. You’ll have the opportunity to ask questions and get replies from me and other Inner Circle members who are dedicated to helping each other out. They are also not doing a realistic test since it seems they are not putting a workload on the NAS during rebuilds? It’s also a great job having the balls to publish something like this to help your readers instead of serving WD’s interests.

The Western Digital RE SATA III and Western Digital Gold 4TB are also impressive products from Western Digital. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Things get worse when Steam needs to preallocate storage space for new games, often I have to leave the machine alone for two to three hours. Do I need an expensive CMR (Ironwolf Helium), a “cheaper” SMR Red NAS drive or will a standard barracuda 8TB SMR “Archive Drive suffice”, for Media (Plex) and Photos. They go way too in-depth on the technical side, but when you’re looking at it, they did a less good experiment.They’re using the technical block size and command bits to hide that they’ve done a less thorough experiment. In these kinds of shorter burst activity workloads, one can see how SMR may be used as a substitute. We use affiliate links on the blog allowing NAScompares information and advice service to be free of charge to you.

The ability to keep systems running and maintaining operations is a key feature of NAS/ RAID systems. So long as there is proper disclosure and people are making an informed choice, then SMR is a valid technology. However, given that before I already had 4x 68WT0N0 drivers located on the same exact slots and the HDD temperature was quite high even then, I can conclude that the temperature difference is not caused by different HDD slot, air etc. These new drives seem to be an upgraded version of their older CMR drives that used the same recording technology.I have also tracked my Red drives statistics from the beginning but after 2000 power on hours or so they were no longer showing the same running hours. Unfortunately it failed 1 month after warranty expiry… Lessons learned - bought Seagate IronWolf this time for a change.

From this experience, my bet would be that 68WT0N0 drives would have a shorter lifespan than 68N32N0. As an industry-leading hard drive manufacturer, Western Digital stands behind their NAS storage solutions with the assurance of a 3-year limited warranty and world-class support services for hassle free data storage.

We are going to start with some general benchmarks to try and place the WD Red (WD40EFAX) performance in a larger context. The Western Digital Red SATA III is a hard disk that weighs 750 g and is compatible with SATA III and SATA 600 interfaces. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. I do get the unhappyness about not branding correctly but I cannot beleive that the results are this severe for consumer NAS especially ? The differences between SMR and CMR are fairly nuanced where regular STH readers may understand, but those regular readers are the same IT professionals that keep up on the latest technology trends in the market.