Re: Best Make of Sata Drive for Linux
On 1/2/11, John Mellor <john.mellor(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've got a 1.5TB Western Digital Green drive, and I'm not
happy with the
performance of it. There are also several discussions online about
these drives having an early ageing problem with ext4 filesystems
because of them unloading the heads every 5 seconds and ext4 only
flushing its journal every 30 seconds.
This problem was mentioned in a recent discussion on the Linux Audio
Users list, and someone mentioned there that there's an alternative
firmware for these drives that solves this frequent parking of the
heads problem.
Andras