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WD has been recently been recently jipping customers by converting it's popular Red and Blue line of consumer hard drives from CMR to SMR. Basically this meas they're able to shoehorn more storage into the same drive with less material and at a cost of performance and in some cases compatibility (mostly for WD Red "NAS" labeled drives). They have done this to reduces cost for them and have NOT been transparent about the change to the customer and the possible repercussions, nor have they relayed the cost savings to the customer. I've ALWAYS preferred WD drives to any other brands, but this action has changed that for me and I will cease to support WD in favor of other brands. I myself was duped by this and noticed the performance of a new WD Blue 6 TB drive to be worse than it's 2GB predecessor in my system. I'm just glad I found out before I spend 1000 bucks on NAS drives. That money will now go to a competitor. Do yourself a favor and research DEEPLY before purchasing a drive from ANY vendor and make sure you are NOT getting SMR drives.