On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 00:59 +0100, Andras Simon wrote:
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.
Can you point me to a web page or somewhere to get that alternate firmware and instructions for installing it?
Right now, I'm just updating a couple of chars in a file every 3 seconds that I've opened using o_sync and doing a fflush() and fsync() in order to work around the problem.