[rescue] Baby needs new sh... oh, wait.

[Doug McIntyre]

On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 11:47:18PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> So.  Does anyone have 4TB drives that they particularly like right now?
>  Particularly dislike?  It goes without saying that Western Digital need
> not apply since practically all WD drives are SMR now.

Every HD maker left has some drives that are SMR. WD got caught
switching their Red's midstream, so they are very careful at labelling
now, much more so than any other maker.  (not that I ever liked the WD
Red line anyway, I always thought they were dog slow, and labelling
them as "NAS" disks doesn't really make them well suited for that anyway).

So, do you want the one that labels what you get, or the one that you
have to read the datasheet on to see if that maker is SMR or not on
that particular drive? 

I'd still stick with HGST, which is now relabelled as WD Gold as well. 
The stats on the WD Red Pro disks are pretty much the same as WD Gold.
It is the WD Red (not Red Pro) disks that are SMR, and are slow and crappy.
Red Pro are CMR. 

Otherwise, I'd look at the Seagate IronWolf drives.
After the tsunami, Seagates really went to crap, but they've been
doing well for failure rate on the Backblaze reports for the last 5-6 years.
Although the drives I'd look at are usually more expensive than
Backblaze is willing to pay for, so they don't tend to test them.