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Comment WD Warranty (Score 1) 74

by simka on Monday June 08, 2020 @12:38PM (#60160218) Attached to: Western Digital's SMR Disks Won't Work For ZFS, But They're Okay For Most NASes.

I had 5 WD60EFAX drives waiting to be installed into a ZFS NAS. Hearing about the SMR and ZFS issue, I decided to call WD support to see if they would replace them with PMR drives. After a bit of back and forth, they agreed to replace them. They didn't have any 6TB drives available so they offered either 8TB that were not in stock or 10TB that were available. Guess which one I asked for? Anyways I was pleased with the outcome. Hope this helps others who have WD SMR drives under warranty.

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