WD Red Plus drives are Coke Classic - TrueNAS - Welcome to the Open Storage Era
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iXsystems' FreeNAS Mini systems will be delivered only with the CMR-based WD Red Plus drives. However, some of those drives are currently labeled “WD Red”, but they are not SMR drives. This labeling should be fixed in a few months, but we may have to add a sticker to those existing WD RED CMR drives!
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