Crunching on an SSD?

Berserker · 1 Oct 2010 at 23:24

So what are the general thoughts on this?

BOINC tends not to be kind on laptop hard disks (I've had two laptops, and both of them have ended up with huge numbers of load/unload cycles, which will eventually kill the drive).

I'm thinking of replacing one of those drives with an SSD and don't want to kill it before I even start.

Berserker · 2 Oct 2010 at 00:08

I'm not *that* worried. I've just heard of people not wanting to put BOINC on an SSD and wondered why.

I'll wager it'll last longer than this hard disk will if BOINC keeps at it! 3 years would do me (which is what the Vertex 2E drives are warrantied for anyway). Just deciding whether I'm happy to lose 200GB :eek:

Berserker · 3 Oct 2010 at 22:36

Hammer time?

Sounds like a plan to me!

Berserker · 5 Oct 2010 at 18:43

I'll know in due course too as there's a 120GB OCZ Vertex 2E waiting for me at work. The 320GB drive being replaced will go into the CD/HDD caddy I've already got (the laptop doesn't have an optical drive).