On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 12:25 -0800, Doug wrote:
> So not sure wether this drive is a good choice or not. I am not sure what the
> stock head park time is but I guess you could always cron something to access
> the disk at a higher rate than the park timeout.
Be aware that the time in my 2TB drive
I was thinking about the
Western Digital Caviar Green WD5000AADS 500GB
Which newwegg has for $49.95 free shipping. The WD util seems to be only for
certain models and they warn against using it on any others. This model is not
included.
>From the wd site
This firmware modifies the be
On 01-Jan-2011 21:27, Doug wrote:
I want a drive that runs cool, draws less power, and does not require a
cooling fan.
I suspect one of the other small arm devices with more RAM might be a better
choice if you were using a flash drive.
I don't have an informed comment on the longevity of fl
On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 18:19 -0800, Doug wrote:
> I wonder what the groups experience has been with low power drives under
> Linux
> on the nslu2? I see there are a lot of complaints about the WD Cavier Green
> drives on all OS's but others seem to have no problems.
I've got a WD Caviar Green
I got myself a cheap, small no-name USB thumb drive in a tech mall in
Singapore about 4/5 years ago. I used it as the main and swap disk for and
NSLU2 for over three years with no problems at all.
It was slow as treacle for anything that required disk access, though the
machine served brilliantly
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