Re: Best Make of Sata Drive for Linux

2011-01-03 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 20:30 -0500, John Mellor wrote: > Its only the green drives that have problems. Which brings the question: Are any off-the-shelf drive-in-a-box not "green drives"? I haven't seen one, yet. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i686.PAE Don't send private

Re: Best Make of Sata Drive for Linux

2011-01-01 Thread suvayu ali
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 5:28 PM, John Mellor wrote: > On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 16:43 -0800, suvayu ali wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:23 PM, John Mellor 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

Re: Best Make of Sata Drive for Linux

2011-01-01 Thread Andras Simon
On 1/2/11, John Mellor wrote: > On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 00:59 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: > >> 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 o

Re: Best Make of Sata Drive for Linux

2011-01-01 Thread John Mellor
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 00:59 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: > On 1/2/11, John Mellor 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 f

Re: Best Make of Sata Drive for Linux

2011-01-01 Thread John Mellor
On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 16:43 -0800, suvayu ali wrote: > On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:23 PM, John Mellor 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 pro

Re: Best Make of Sata Drive for Linux

2011-01-01 Thread John Mellor
On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 16:43 -0800, suvayu ali wrote: > On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:23 PM, John Mellor 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 pro

Re: Best Make of Sata Drive for Linux

2011-01-01 Thread suvayu ali
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:23 PM, John Mellor 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 he

Re: Best Make of Sata Drive for Linux

2011-01-01 Thread Andras Simon
On 1/2/11, John Mellor 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

RE: Best Make of Sata Drive for Linux

2011-01-01 Thread Michael Miles
-Original Message- From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of John Mellor Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 3:24 PM To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Best Make of Sata Drive for Linux On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 17:49

Re: Best Make of Sata Drive for Linux

2011-01-01 Thread John Mellor
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 e

Best Make of Sata Drive for Linux

2011-01-01 Thread Jim
What would be the best MAKE of a 7200rpm Sata harddrive to install Linux F14 on ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidel