STUPID of me!!! And thus likely resulted in a ton of RMA’s (bit’em in the ass a little). 6 months ago. Man, I’m with you there. BEST BUY, the BEST BUY logo, the tag design, and MY BEST BUY are trademarks of Best Buy and its affiliated companies. In this video, I show you a Western Digital 8TB Easystore drive that has been shucked. No more ADVANCED FORMAT ■■■■ nor SMR. A third time I called in I was told that this information is not available and and cannot be disseminated to customers. AND GET THIS! User rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars with 5647 reviews. Hard drives were already bad at random access I/O—but SMR disks are worse. SMR drives are completely unsuitable for for a NAS or performance disk. The 8TB EasyStore contains a WD80EMAZ helium drive (up until late 2017 the NAS Red drives WD80EFX). CMR. Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) suffers from reduced write speed, sometimes a lot. Flipping the enclosure over we see how everything is laid out inside the kit. https://www.cdrinfo.com/d7/content/wd-lists-hard-disk-drives-use-slower-smr-technology. WD Blue WD10SPZX - hard drive - 1 TB - SATA 6Gb/s - overview and full product specs on CNET. This thread explains a lot… Thanks guys!! And this is VERY BAD NEWS. All were PMR. WD100EMAZ - the AZ suffix and 256MB cache strongly indicates SMR. PMR - Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (both CMR and SMR type drives use it). SMR not so fast, it’s unreliable, has bug-ridden firmware, is slow, and just seems the wrong way to push storage tech. I removed WD from our preferred suppliers list unless it’s used material - which then goes into something else - suited for refurb material. WD doesn't advertise which new drives in the 2TB-6TB range use this technology. It seems SMR is used to push capacity sooner than PMR is ready for, but they eventually seem to make some (bought a WD gold 7200 RPM drive that’s PMR). This interest led Western Digital to create the WD Red NAS-optimised family of hard disk drives. Stupid WD support… ). No response on that. WD 10TB RED SATA NASware 3.0 3.5" SATA III Internal NAS Hard Drive 256mb WD100EMAZ Pulled out of a brand new external. I have 1 TB, three 3 TB, one 6 TB and three 8 TB drives that all work well and have for many years, especially the very old 1 and 3 TB drives I bought when they first came out. I have DOZENS of them, mostly external! I WILL NEVER BUY ANOTHER EXTERNAL WD DRIVE AGAIN!!! Point is both are proven tech for several decades. FYI, the 10TB uses a similar WD100EMAZ helium drive. The Gui showed my about ~125MB/s for each disk. This is a helium-filled 256MB cache drive, like the WD Red 10TB solution. And need to know if these are PMR or SMR. With drives up to 6TB, WD Red™ offers a wide array of storage for customers looking to build a NAS solution. The most I got was a 25% coupon… lol Anyway, I asked multiple times about 10 TB drives that were PMR… I asked for model numbers or better still, links to them. and I will choose CAREFULLY from now on, buy INTERNAL drives, and use my own ENCLOSURES! I’m thinking YES!! At the time of writing, this drive can be bought for £292 in the UK and $324 in the US if sourced from Amazon. But no more WD for mainline storage. Why is that? In other words, a radio transmitting at 1,5 W or even at 3 W will not get any more PMR radio range. Seller: jennifeholli_4 (485) 100%, Location: Denver, Colorado, Ships to: US & many other countries, Item: 283243145223 Western Digital 10tb White Label (OEM Red) WD100EMAZ 5400rpm 256MB Cache NEW. Therefore, it's possible you didn't get a drive using SMR depending on when you purchased it. And after some coaxing, said that they are both PMR, but that doesn’t make sense because of the weight of the drives and their buffer sizes. Now HGST has taken their helium technology and expanded capacity even further with the Ultrastar Helium He8 8TB … They are conventional PMR drives with NAS firmware. We found SMR can put data at risk 13-16x longer than CMR, Someone said this is part of a RACE for BIGGER capacities. Just got my black friday WD Easystore opened. daitro on 08/07/2020 - 14:41 . The popularity of Network-Attached Storage (NAS) systems has fuelled a surge in demand for large capacity hard disk drives. List of WD CMR and SMR hard drives (HDD) Updated table : 23/10/2020. Oh, also, it … Compare this with the “INFECTED” SMR drive list, and you’re good to go! Well, i got new for you: crystaldiskinfo CAN!!! But fine for archival and backup disks. Dont quote me on this, But a reliabe source told me that those would be SMR, And unlike prev posts that said its only the 2b-6tb, I can confirm my 10tb shuck from BestBuy is a white label SMR as well…Running the 10tb and 4tb non smr together in JBOD the non smr drive runs about 10c cooler than the other, Dunno just an observation, Probably not related at all, Watching atop from cmdline during big dumps 4tb or more, the 10tb goes red and stays red…. It said something like “using WD’s PMR technology…” (in other words, the original way used since at least the 80’s). I now have to deal with these hidden landmines because WD does not put SMR / PMR on the label, which is very deceptive. It can be… BUT, before that happens, WD is probably using the most demanding customers / environments to TEST SMR tech so they can DEPLOY them in the bigger capacity DRIVES: 8, 10, 12, 14TB and beyond (do not currently exist). So now, according to this article, they have made a small attempt at indicating what technology is used and in what drives. Not that anyone would want a mechanical drive as a startup device in this day and age. People are reporting firmware corruption, file system corruption (happened to me before it died) and slow speeds after the 30-40 GB temporary space (PMR) on the edges of the platters is filled, leaving you with ~20 MB/s SMR write speeds. Period! WD don't make SMR drives larger than 6TB, so yes this is not a SMR drive. HM-SMR - Host Managed Shingled Magnetic Recording. I say this because, WD has the same “infected SMR drives” using the well known PMR tech! Hello, i just switched my system to 6x WD120EDAZ 12TB Drives. How BIG is it? Why keep SMR and PMR drives with the SAME capacity in the same line and HIDING this info from customers? WesternDigital continues to “hide” what technology is used in your hard disk. And a supervisor said they can’t disseminate the information I’m asking for. ... Seen as im using SHR raid Ive decided to expand my array with either 8 or 10 tb drives which still seem to be PMR drives for now and they still are vastly available. That means these drives have to use SMR, the slower performer. This is the optimal output power and it guarantees maximum coverage or maximum PMR range. PMR is the successor to Longitudinal Magnetic Recording (LMR) and achieves a data density three times higher than its predecessor LMR – the read / write head has been optimized for this and the vertical positioning also contributes to this. © 2021 Best Buy. Drives found in these can be WD100EMAZ (rebadged WD HGST Ultrastar He10/WD Ultrastar DC510 Helium drives) and WD101EMAZ (rebadged WD UltraStar DC HC330 drives). Filled out an online email form and received no answer. (2) WDC WD40EFRX-68N32N0 : 4000,7 GB [2/0/0, sa1] - wd It was SMR. But there are still low-cost, pennies matter, systems being sold - likely to be purchased users not in the know. It’s the principle behind it all. garetz on 08/12/2020 - 09:44 +1 vote. The 8TB EasyStore contains a WD80EMAZ helium drive (up until late 2017 the NAS Red drives WD80EFX). Updated table : 23/04/2020 In-store pricing may vary. Today, we are going to look at the first helium-filled WD Red model – the 10TB WD Red (WD100EFAX) NAS drive!. It seems like a marketing TEST!!! Gladly, i checked my WD ELEMENTS drives, a NONE of the internal drives is PLAGUED by SMR! This is why the drive continues to work long after a large write operation …it’s flushing the PMR space to SMR area. And a supervisor … I have two drives WD60EZAZ-00ZGGHBO and WD60EZRZ-00GZ5B1 And need to know if these are PMR or SMR. Too bad WD doesn’t help the customer know that information without making (the customer) wade through a ridiculous branding scheme of meaningless colors.And even then they’re not telling you everything. The WD Red Family Has fewer than 5 start/stops and less than 5 minutes of use based on SMART … In fact they use the technology on mainstream devices like boot drives. I have many WD external drives, and i DON’T WANT any drive with SMR!!! PMR, or Perpendicular Magnetic Recording, is a method in which magnetization takes place horizontally and vertically on platters. This may have been the case 2 years ago but times change. Hey Boss, WD is being sued over this. And after some coaxing, said that they are both PMR, but that doesn’t make sense because of the weight of the drives and their buffer sizes. While that also sounds like a win for consumers, these drives are not suitable for NAS environments due to their... We tested WD Red SMR v CMR drives to see if there was indeed a significant impact with the change. There is no clear marking of which technology is being used. Called tech support, the 1st agent did not know what PMR or SMR are. WD was “forced” to start indicating what drives are using SMR. Well spoken, Thread UPDATE: If your drive has WD-"AX-AZ- I think A Period. Called tech support, the 1st agent did not know what PMR or SMR are. This because certain drives earmarked for use in NAS were not really living up to the performance expected. I ended up buying a manufacturer refurbished 10 TB Gold datacenter drive for $170 on eBay to replace it, because I was certain it was PMR (was right in the description). (3) WDC WD1600BEVS-22UST0 : 160,0 GB [3/0/0, sa1] - wd. They wouldn’t replace it because I took it out of a MyBook enclosure. In 2020 what is the drive inside this unit? Funny and sad at the same time. I don’t want a mechanical disk that overlaps tracks and has to write adjacent tracks just to write a specific track!!! Built and tested for personal and home NAS systems with up to 8-bays, these drives pack all the punch you need in one powerhouse unit for storing, archiving, and sharing. You can refer the link provided below for more information on PMR technology. I need to know which of the drives support it or not. Using SMR technology instead of conventional magnetic recording allows HDD manufacturers to put out denser drives at cheaper prices. Western Digital provides data storage solutions, including systems, HDD, Flash SSD, memory and personal data solutions to help customers capture and preserve their most valued data. WD - easystore 8TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive - Black. Customers MUST be informed of this new tech, even those using EXTERNAL SINGLE DRIVES ENCLOSURES!!! Sounds to me like the head loses the track and tries to relocate itself. You can read my write up about SMR on my site. Aztán a PMR (CSM) / SMR HDD is kérdés lehet, ahol az utóbbiaknál köztudott a technológiából adódó (esetleges) belassulás , ahol az SMR manapság csaknem kb. I'm out. How about that? Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, Incompetence from WD support on PMR or SMR drives, Buyer beware—that 2TB-6TB “NAS” drive you’ve been eyeing might be SMR, WD publishes complete list of SMR drives following user backlash, WD Red SMR vs CMR Tested Avoid Red SMR | Page 2 of 2 | ServeTheHome, https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/public/western-digital/product/internal-drives/wd-red-hdd/data-sheet-western-digital-wd-red-hdd-2879-800002.pdf, https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo. Prices and offers are subject to change. https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/20230. Now also Seagate Skyhawk have few SMR drives. I have two drives The UltraStar, Enterprise, Gold, and Purple series aren’t disclosed either. So they can target “specific” markets with the SMR drives? All rights reserved. FYI, the 10TB uses a similar WD100EMAZ helium drive. You might have to call WD Support and give them the serial number, from there they might able to find out for you if HDD is SMR or PMR drives. smrじゃなくとも、リビルド中に他のhddも壊れてデータ飛ぶってのはあり得る 375 ： Socket774 ：2020/08/12(水) 20:40:24. The PMR space is like temp work space that is written to at normal drive speed and slowly written to the SMR areas after. The difference in write tech is just the density. JoeySmyth. WTF is that??? The WD101EFAX also seems to be the replacement for it but both can still be purchased off Amazon with the WD101EFAX being about $10 more. WD knows exactly what they’re selling, naturally. I hear you completely. Some 8’s are SMR, but mostly PMR, and as far as I can tell, most 10 TB drives are SMR. Is this still a CMR / PMR / LMR or is it an SMR hard drive. PMR/CMR, perpendicular/conventional, are essentially the same thing these days. So, if anyone needs to know WHAT INTERNAL DRIVE MODEL they have in their WD EXTERNAL ENCLOSURES, install https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo and COPY PAST the info to the clipboard! But they’re instructed not to reveal this SMR tech. ... PMR also is the same thing as CMR. Shuck it and start using it, I noticed that there's random noise from the drive when reading / writing. From what I read, they started inserting SMR drives into the red NAS line around early 2017. minden (2-4 TB-osokat is) 2,5"-os belső és külső HDD-t érint és a 3,5"-osok egy részét is. Please re-read the first sentence of my post. (EDIT -> COPY or CTRL-C). I don’t need more info on PMR. WD60EZAZ-00ZGGHBO WD technicians don’t have a way to query the drive and ask for the model number?? ... At least its not SMR. jebusx June 25, 2019, 2:27pm #2. Easystore WD 10… Check for TRIM support, if it is present then it is definitely SMR. garetz on 08/07/2020 - 08:27 ... these won't contain a WD100EMAZ, but instead a WD101EMAZ. I think it’s very unfortunate and quite disappointing that WD has no idea what kind of drives they’re selling, and worse still, SMR drives have a lot of problems that WD is not standing behind. After removing the outer shell, we find a WD100EMAZ 10TB white label HDD inside. Unhelpful (2) They are conventional PMR drives with NAS firmware. DM-SMR - Device Managed Shingled Magnetic Recording. WD60EZRZ-00GZ5B1. (BTW, if you ask WD how to know the DRIVE MODEL inside an external WD enclosure, they will tell you it’s impossible!!! I would fully expect such information to be indicated on the product datasheet. (1) WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0 : 2000,3 GB [1/0/0, sa1] - wd (One month late because I've been lazy.) Please tell me the wd80ezaz-11tdba0 whether use smr or pmr, thanks. Can’t even answer a simple question on the fundamental technology in the product. Paste it to a text editor, and voila!!! It will only use up its battery faster. I bought 3 of them recently and shucked them. Using SMR technology instead of conventional magnetic recording allows HDD manufacturers to put out denser drives at cheaper prices. Filled out an online email form and received no answer. Only way to find out is to buy one and discover it's got poor write speeds, apparently. With this coupon, I’m thinking of getting a 12 TB dual enclosure since the 6 TB drives are all PMR. Back in September 2012, HGST first announced their Helium Hard Drive Platform.The Helium drives began to ship the following year in November and as of last month, HGST has deployed over a million drives.We had previously reviewed the Ultrastar He6 6TB helium drive. Pricing. Tried it with dd and got about ~550MB/s on my Z2 Array. The second “technician” said SMR stands for Standard Metabolic Rate! I just had a 10 Tb drive I paid over 200 USD for and it dies after 2 months. Note that currently, the MAX capacity drive using SMR is the 6TB WD60EFAX, with 3 platters / 6 heads… So… is that it?? Is WD USING RAID / more demanding users as “guinea pigs” to test SMR and then move on and use SMR on +14TB drives??? More power than that in the radio brings no benefit, except if the radio is used in DMO. There’s a leading edge WD Red™ drive for every compatible NAS system to store your precious data. It works great, but I'm a little bit uncertain whether the write/read are slower than they should be. Minimum disk is 12tb large for helium disks now as far as these shuckable externals are concerned. 1 WD-WX21D689KFDL And need to know if these are PMR or SMR. https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/public/western-digital/product/internal-drives/wd-red-hdd/data-sheet-western-digital-wd-red-hdd-2879-800002.pdf. Also fine. 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