On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 7:43 PM Wol <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: > > And yes - the 8TB capacity gave it away - I think the largest "normal" > drives available are 4TB at present ... anything bigger must be shingled. >
I have several non-SMR drives in the 8-12TB range, shucked from those WD external drives that occasionally are on sale at Best Buy. While the drives inside are white-label people have managed to socially engineer the support team at WD to reveal that they aren't SMR. But, you definitely need to check. -- Rich
