Your WD Red NAS Hard Drives Might Be Using SMR – What You Need To
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WD Red NAS Drives and SMR - UPDATE
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WD rebrands its Red hard drives after getting hit with a lawsuit
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Our Response to the Recent SMR Hard Drive News
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Western Digital Sued Over Undocumented SMR on Certain WD Red HDDs
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Western Digital Announces Red Plus HDDs, Cleans Up Red SMR Mess with Plus Branding
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WD publishes complete list of SMR drives following user backlash
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Seagate and WD quietly introduce SMR drives, says report - Storage - News
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WD Red SMR Lawsuit Pays Out Pennies in Settlement Damages
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WD Red Plus Internal NAS Hard Drive: Hands-On Review - 42West
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Western Digital implies WD Red NAS SMR drive users are responsible for overuse problems – Blocks and Files
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WD Red DM-SMR Update 3 Vendors Bail and WD Knew of ZFS Issues
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Western Digital Introduces the Red Plus HDDs, Using the Plus Branding to Specify Which HDDs Use the Slower SMR technology!
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Should I buy these used WD Red NAS HDD? Made Aug 2016, 128gb of cache. Seller wants $260 CAD for both or $192 USD. I am currently running two Ironwolf 8TB in
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WD Red Pro - Designed for NAS - Digital Reviews Network