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Originally Posted by RobUK
Sorry to hear that. WD have re-branded their CMR Red drives to 'WD Red Plus' to make it easier to distinguish but that only happened recently so suppliers probably still have a mixture of old CMR and SMR drives all just labelled 'WD Red' and with Amazon just being box shifters it's a crap shoot as to which you'll get.
Good luck with the refund, at least it's usually quite straightforward with Amazon just a pain to have to reorder and wait longer.
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Thanks Rob. The red was collected yesterday and I got confirmation of the refund issue about 5 minutes after the Hermes guy left. I didn't want to risk any more wrongly labelled disks so I ordered an Ironwolf from Scan which arrived yesterday lunchtime. That's already installed and formatted and the storage pool is now saying repaired and healthy, so not too painful in the end.