Green and SATA HDD is not suitable for production. They are for backup only.
If it's I/O intensive, you must use SAS or SCSI HDD. It's not only due to speed & performance, but also it's entirely different mechanism to read/write.
Always or often, delay write causes the integrity problem of the filesystem. Delay write may be due to sleeping, disk cache, filesystem object cache. If cached object cannot be committed (for example, power lost, signal lost), the filesystem will be damaged. Then it needs a fsck.