Model: Western Digital Blue WD40EZAZ 4 TB Hard Drive - 3.5" Internal - SATA (SATA/600) - Desktop PC, All-in-One PC Device Supported - 5400rpm - 2 Year Warran
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01-31-2022 at 06:00 PM.
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Thanks, bought this to replace a 1TB Blue that's 8 years old and a 2TB Blue that's like 5 years old.
Edit: returning this, it's a SMR drive which is only good for background archiving.
Don't believe the ridiculous anti-SMR hype online. They had a problem with a niche, DIY raid implementation. For normal desktop use this is fine and a good deal.
But by all means, if you want a Red Plus CMR drive, just buy that. All my big HDD's are white label WD CMR shucks.
While this might be 20% slower than the typical 2TB 7200RPM drive (which you'll never notice), the big boy 8TB and up 5600RPM drives are as fast or faster than smaller 7200RPM drives.
Regardless I'd never use this as a game drive or for anything other than warm media storage.
Don't believe the ridiculous anti-SMR hype online. They had a problem with a niche, DIY raid implementation. For normal desktop use this is fine and a good deal.
But by all means, if you want a Red Plus CMR drive, just buy that. All my big HDD's are white label WD CMR shucks.
This will be just for Lightroom photo storage/editing and videos. I could get a 3-4 TB SSD but seems like overkill.
There is no reason to buy the WD40EZAZ with SMR and 256 MB cache for $60. It has horrible random write performance.
You can buy the WD40EZRZ with CMR and 64 MB cache for $60 at Best Buy right now. Much better write performance and only $1 more than it was at the end of September.
Don't believe the ridiculous anti-SMR hype online. They had a problem with a niche, DIY raid implementation. For normal desktop use this is fine and a good deal.
But by all means, if you want a Red Plus CMR drive, just buy that. All my big HDD's are white label WD CMR shucks.
SMR is just cheapskate technology. it's only advantage is more slow storage for less money.
You will pay for it though, on rewrites.
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https://blog.westerndig
Apparently this is wrong and out of date - what are you doing WD?
Edit: returning this, it's a SMR drive which is only good for background archiving.
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Edit: returning this, it's a SMR drive which is only good for background archiving.
But by all means, if you want a Red Plus CMR drive, just buy that. All my big HDD's are white label WD CMR shucks.
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https://blog.westerndigital.com/w...Us_vDS.pdf [westerndigital.com]
Apparently this is wrong and out of date - what are you doing WD?
Regardless I'd never use this as a game drive or for anything other than warm media storage.
But by all means, if you want a Red Plus CMR drive, just buy that. All my big HDD's are white label WD CMR shucks.
You can buy the WD40EZRZ with CMR and 64 MB cache for $60 at Best Buy right now. Much better write performance and only $1 more than it was at the end of September.
This is the real deal.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-b...Id=9026007
But by all means, if you want a Red Plus CMR drive, just buy that. All my big HDD's are white label WD CMR shucks.
You will pay for it though, on rewrites.