<story><title>Western Digital Lawsuit for Shipping Slower SMR Hard Drives Including WD Red NAS</title><url>https://www.hattislaw.com/cases/investigations/western-digital-lawsuit-for-shipping-slower-smr-hard-drives-including-wd-red-nas/?shh</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PeterStuer</author><text>The Red series was originally marketed and positioned specifically for Home&amp;#x2F;SMB NAS use. I have 4 of these (the old versions from before the SMR switch) running in my Synology NAS for years, and a 5th lying spare in its original sealed packaging just in case.&lt;p&gt;When WD stealthily swapped to using device managed SMR technology in the series, they hoped that typical users wouldn&amp;#x27;t notice the change in behavior of the drives, as they assumed a small NAS would have enough downtime for the drive to manage the data being behind the scenes rearranged towards the slow shingled sections.&lt;p&gt;This assumption is not always true, but specifically it doesn&amp;#x27;t hold at all when an array has to be rebuild e.g. because of a drive failure in a raid array, as that requires writing data continuously and for a long time.&lt;p&gt;WD was caught not just using a technology that made their drives unsuited for the advertised purpose, but initially even denying that they had done so.</text></comment>
<story><title>Western Digital Lawsuit for Shipping Slower SMR Hard Drives Including WD Red NAS</title><url>https://www.hattislaw.com/cases/investigations/western-digital-lawsuit-for-shipping-slower-smr-hard-drives-including-wd-red-nas/?shh</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>Nothing wrong with shipping slow SMR drives, the issue is, it was never explicitly disclosed to the customers&amp;#x2F;end users.&lt;p&gt;For that, they deserve the lawsuit.</text></comment>