Best Make of Sata Drive for Linux

[John Mellor]

On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 00:59 +0100, Andras Simon wrote:
> On 1/2/11, John Mellor <john.mellor at 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.