On 1/2/11, John Mellor <john.mellor@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
