Western Digital 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS are using SMR, an issue with NAS RAID?
Summary
The guys brought all these points to Western Digital’s attention and a spokesperson told us: “All our WD Red drives are designed meet or exceed the performance requirements and specifications for common small business/home NAS workloads. We work closely with major NAS providers to ensure WD Red HDDs (and SSDs) at all capacities have broad compatibility with host systems. “We strive to make the experience for our NAS customers seamless, and recording technology typically does not impact small business/home NAS-based use cases. In a typical small business/home NAS environment, workloads tend to be bursty in nature, leaving sufficient idle time for garbage collection and other maintenance operations. “We would be happy to work with customers on experiences they may have, but would need further, detailed information for each individual situation.” If all that is correct then there is no solution to the problem at hand, other than returning the HDD and replace it with another one.