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1. William D. Jones (cr1901@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 10:51:49 JST William D. Jones

   Part of me wonders if WD Red Plus 3TB drives are in fact 4TB drives with different firmware, seeing that the product brief doesn't list 3TB drives:

   https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/public/western-digital/product/internal-drives/wd-red-plus-hdd/product-brief-western-digital-wd-red-plus-hdd.pdf

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 10:51:48 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     @cr1901 like how processors get binned based on how well that perform at different speeds?
     maybe 3tb drives are 4tb drives that failed some QA?

   • William D. Jones (cr1901@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 11:11:04 JST William D. Jones

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     • Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     @foone That's not comforting if true LOL. But we'll see how they last.

     I def notice a difference for NAS usage compared to the USB 3.x SMR Toshiba drive I've been using for the same purpose (Red is SMR, Red Plus is CMR; WD got in trouble for that one :D).

     No, I didn't intend things to be like that, but my old NAS drive died in December, so the 2.5" Toshiba got a "promotion" for a while :'D.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 11:11:04 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     @cr1901 This is the sort of stuff to look at the Backblaze hard drive stats:
     https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/resources/hard-drive-test-data

     If these drives are less reliable than others, they'd show up in the stats.