Re:Western Digital Lawsuit for Shipping Slower SMR Hard Driv...
by dathinab on Friday May 29, 2020 @10:22AM
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The iX systems blog linked above implies that:
- not all SMR drives seem to cause problems
- rebuilding on a non-fresh/cleard hard drive can have negative performance implications due to how SMR works
So my guess is that it's a problem with the firmware which can potentially be fixed. After which they could be used in a NAS, just aren't necessary as far as you might think. So I guess it's probably not looking too good for the lawsuites chances to cause much yield/discount.
- not all SMR drives seem to cause problems
- rebuilding on a non-fresh/cleard hard drive can have negative performance implications due to how SMR works
So my guess is that it's a problem with the firmware which can potentially be fixed. After which they could be used in a NAS, just aren't necessary as far as you might think. So I guess it's probably not looking too good for the lawsuites chances to cause much yield/discount.