1 Jan
2011
1 Jan
'11
5:59 p.m.
On 1/2/11, John Mellor john.mellor@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