Re: Best Make of Sata Drive for Linux

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On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 16:43 -0800, suvayu ali wrote:
> 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?

Both of those drives should be fine.  Its only the green drives that
have problems.

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