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by nix23 2210 days ago
True, there's a good list:

https://nascompares.com/answer/list-of-wd-cmr-and-smr-hard-d...

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The original 2TB - 3TB - 4TB - 6TB Reds with the 'EFRX' suffix were CMR, the later ones with the 'EFAX' suffix are SMR drives.
Update: EFBX looks to be entirely CMR

Know anything about EFBX? SMR I assume? I literally have one arriving today to replace a disk in my single disk redundancy JBOD

The whole disk buying process was irksome because I up until WD shut them down always depended on HGST.

If you mean the FFBX (I can't find any reference to EFBX models), the Red Pro series, those are CMS (and 7200rpm which is what the B stands for).