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The only thing I wanted them to say was:

"These are the drives we currently sell which use SMR. When we use SMR in the future, we'll disclose it."

Had they done this, the whole snafu would have actually made me more likely to buy WD drives than before!

But they didn't do it. Oh well.



Same! And I still don't feel confident that the Red Pros are actually not SMR. Has any independent outlet confirmed that yet? Or am I stuck buying Toshiba next?


Toshiba does the same thing too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22906959


However, when asked, Toshiba was explicit about which models do and do not use SMR: https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/16/toshiba-desktop-disk-d...




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