WD Blue 6TB PC Desktop Hard Drive, lowest price according to Camelcamelcamel.
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I’m also seeing $177.52
Down below the price there is a bit that says "Willing to Wait", with the lower price + shipping if you dont have Prime… I assume if you have Prime it just shows the lower price up the top?
SMR drive, no go for me.
The penalty is basically non existent in a Raid1+0 and minimized in a Raid6.
I think this article gave a fairly balanced view on SMR usage in NAS/RAID applications, which is WD's SMR firmware did a good job in managing data overwrites, but it could not overcome the limitation of SMR in every situation. In particular, it failed spectacularly with ZFS-RAID-Z.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/western-digitals-smr…
Conclusions
We want to be very clear: we agree with Seagate's Greg Belloni, who stated on the company's behalf that they "do not recommend SMR for NAS applications." At absolute best, SMR disks underperform significantly in comparison to CMR disks; at their worst, they can fall flat on their face so badly that they may be mistakenly detected as failed hardware.
With that said, we can see why Western Digital believed, after what we assume was a considerable amount of laboratory testing, that their disks would be "OK" for typical NAS usage. Although obviously slower than their Ironwolf competitors, they performed adequately both for conventional RAID rebuilds and for typical day-to-day NAS file-sharing workloads.
Interesting, my RaidZ3 does quite well with shingled drives. Odd.
@roller: They should probably just be called YMMV drives. At least the implementation in the Reds was done so well that it stayed under the radar for a long time. Other models may implement SMR more aggressively and not respond so well even to less demanding use cases (my WD 4TB portable seems to be a good example).
Ok thanks
Always good to know
Was $150.84 during previous prime day sales.
$202.72 for me.