budget 3tb or 4tb NAS drive?

I bought a 14TB WD elements (WD140EMFZ) for £191, and an 8TB WD elements (WD80EMAZ) for £125 which I shucked. I'm a member of a user driven deals website which I'm not sure I can name here. By shucked I mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMudTWoMvsY

Also some western digital drives between 2-6TB have been using SMR technology which is obviously a cost saving measure on WD's (Seagate & Toshiba included) part. They have been getting rejected from RAID setups for taking too long to write.

I was going to use the 14TB for shucking but I bought the 8TB and exchanged a performance degraded 4TB, and use freefilesync to backup all my drives/SSD to the 14TB WD elements (I never had a real backup before).
 
megatron said:
I bought a 14TB WD elements (WD140EMFZ) for £191, and an 8TB WD elements (WD80EMAZ) for £125 which I shucked. I'm a member of a user driven deals website which I'm not sure I can name here. By shucked I mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMudTWoMvsY

Also some western digital drives between 2-6TB have been using SMR technology which is obviously a cost saving measure on WD's (Seagate & Toshiba included) part. They have been getting rejected from RAID setups for taking too long to write.

I was going to use the 14TB for shucking but I bought the 8TB and exchanged a performance degraded 4TB, and use freefilesync to backup all my drives/SSD to the 14TB WD elements (I never had a real backup before).
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Thanks, I am well aware what shucking is but none you mention are 3tb or 4tb?

Also, it is OK mentioning that but if you feel the need to explain what it is, you really should explain to people the downsides as well, it is not some magical Unicorn, it more than has its own problems, ignoring the fact it is a gamble.
 
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