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		DavidVoid on April 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On WD Red NAS Drives Here is a list of known SMR drives [1]. The newer WD##EFAX ones are SMR but if your drive is a few years old then it's probably a WD40EFRX which is NOT a SMR drive. [1] https://www.ixsystems.com/community/resources/list-of-known-...

phire on April 21, 2020 | [–]

Except only the EFAX drives with 6TB or less capacity.

The 8TB and larger drives use the exact same WD##EFAX model number, but aren't SMR.

nonninz on April 22, 2020 | | [–]

Looks like my RAID NAS at home is safe (from this at least) then. Thank you :)

d4rti on April 24, 2020 | [–]

Thanks, it's the EFRX.

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