Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording – Blocks and Files
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Some users are experiencing problems adding the latest WD Red NAS drives to RAID arrays and suspect it is because they are actually shingled magnetic recording drives submarined into the channel. Alan Brown, a network manager at UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory, the UK’s largest university-based space research group, told us about his problems adding […]
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