What exact same thing? Using SMR, or using SMR without mentioning it while claiming that the drives were suitable for RAID?

I read here they used SMR without mentioning it and clarified it on their website. Don't know if they said the drives were suitable for RAID.

They only used SMR without disclosing for general purpose drives... while bad, not as bad... their IronWolf and IronWolf Pro (NAS) drives are not SMR.

As I mentioned in another comment, equally pissed WD did this on (albiet smallest size) a Black label drive. WTF would they do this on their "high performance" segment is beyond me, and completely unreasonable.

They did not, Seagate did not disclose some of the their Desktop Channel drives were SMR,

the NAS, aka IronWolf, drives are all CMR, have always been CMR, and according to seagate will always be CMR

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/seaga...