BOINC/Folding on an SSD?

TheTross · 13 Jan 2011 at 23:32

Have gooooooogled and came up with next to nothing on this, so am hoping some of you good folk can shed some light

I'm toying with the idea of getting an SSD and bunging Windows 7 and all me apps - including BOINC - on it but have no idea how (or if) it'll react to being crunched on over the long-term. Does anyone here use SSDs for crunching on, and if so are there any issues that need sorting out beforehand or is it just a case of sticking BOINC on it and letting it do its thing?

Biffa · 13 Jan 2011 at 23:34

Doesnt bother mine.

I even been crunching off a USB stick for about 6 months.

TheTross · 13 Jan 2011 at 23:39

Sounds good, cheers Biffa.

One other thing though. Does continuous use affect TRIM and/or garbage collection?

Biffa · 13 Jan 2011 at 23:47

Not sure mate tbh, most modern SSD's it shouldn't worry them. But if you are worried just stick a cheap or old 80GB SATA in the rig for your crunching stuff. e.g. on one rig I have a crunching drive, with the following structure:

d:
|-BOINC
| |-Program
| |-Data
|
|-FAH
| |-cpu
| |-gpu
|
|
|

Berserker · 14 Jan 2011 at 08:54

Your Google-Fu is weak, sir...

[thread]18192427[/thread]

No obvious issues with the Vertex 2E I've been using for a few months (though I'll admit I haven't gone looking).

TheTross · 14 Jan 2011 at 10:56

Ah, thanks for that Berserker. Always thought my google skills were quite good... obviously not

(Note to self: start using Search function as well!)

Reading through that thread suggests that there're no real problems at all then. Excellent.

Cheers lads