-----Original Message----- From: users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Mellor Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 3:24 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Best Make of Sata Drive for Linux On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 17:49 -0500, Jim wrote: > What would be the best MAKE of a 7200rpm Sata harddrive to install > Linux > F14 on ? 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. Other than this one negative, I suspect than any other drive will do well for the first 5 years or so. Linux is much easier on the drive than Redmond's products are. -- 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 If it is speed you are after I would highly suggest a SD drive. Solid State as a boot and see the performance go way up. 32 - 64 gig is on average 100.00 -- 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
