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Maybe this is mentioned somewhere in the article, I haven't read the whole thing, but its important to elaborate: SMR is only in-place on WD Red drives between 2TB-6TB [1]. Everything smaller and larger than that uses CMR, and SMR isn't used on any other 3.5" drives beyond their budget "blue" drives. This is now cross-elaborated on their Amazon (US) istings; their 2TB-6TB Red drives are in a totally different product listing [2] which says "SMR" in the title (versus their CMR drives [3])
I don't like that they hid it. If they want to keep SMR around for their 2-6TB Red variants, I think they should reclassify those drives with another "color" and not certify them for server applications (WD Pink?)
[1] https://blog.westerndigital.com/wd-red-nas-drives/
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Red-4TB-Internal-Hard-Drive/dp/B07MYL...
[3] https://www.amazon.com/Red-12TB-Internal-Hard-Drive/dp/B07RQ...