On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:23 PM, 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. > I have 2 1TB WD Black drives and one 300GB Velociraptor they all have been working almost flawlessly. Could you please point me to what kind of symptoms I might see if the above was true for my case? PS: Did you by any chance get the unloading of heads and ext4 flushing its journals interchanged? If not, I don't see how that would be a problem. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- 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