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I recently put my OS on a SSD and wanted to know if this is a good idea? I'm curious if it will shorten the lifespan of a SSD.
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Running DC apps WILL degrade an SSD. I would not recommend it. If you can, get a cheap mechanical HD (even an old IDE drive, possibly with an IDE-to-SATA converter) if you can, and put your DC data-files/work directories on the platter drive.
I burned through nearly 25% of the lifespan of a 30GB SSD, running BOINC on it for around 2 months.
Running DC apps WILL degrade an SSD. I would not recommend it. If you can, get a cheap mechanical HD (even an old IDE drive, possibly with an IDE-to-SATA converter) if you can, and put your DC data-files/work directories on the platter drive.
I burned through nearly 25% of the lifespan of a 30GB SSD, running BOINC on it for around 2 months.
Weird. I have a 60 GB Crucial M4 on a dedicated 24/7 BOINC cruncher that's been running for about 1.5 years and it shows 91% health. Just checked my 3770K that's been running WCG 24/7 since February of this year and it still shows 100% according to CrystalDiskInfo. Either I'm incredibly lucky or perhaps running DC on SSDs isn't nearly as detrimental as some make it seem.
While the client is folding it is writing log entries every frame (i.e. every minute or two) to your HD. The only way I know of to stop that behavior, short of stopping folding altogether, is to install folding on to a USB/SSD drive so that it writes logs there instead of your HD which doesn't as much stop the behavior as move it to a non-mechanical drive.
Interesting.
I have run Win 8 and BOINC on my daily-use-computer (office, photoshop, browsing) for more than 1½ year; BOINC running 16 hours each day. I have run the Folding@Home Holiday season race for a full month 24/7 on this computer (but then BOINC was not running)
It is Corsaire Force GT, 120 GB, firmware version 1.3.
The total run time of the SSD is 11596 hours, lifetime reads 6,63 TB, lifetime writes 7,76 TB, SSD life left: 100%, Life curve status 100, no uncorrectable errors, no fails, etc., etc. i.e. all is green.
On an other computer, which runs BOINC 24/7 I have the same brand and type of SSD for 1 year and 2 months, (10 224 hours), lifetime reads 7,24 TB, lifetime writes 8,36 TB and the SSD life is 100% left.
As I can see there is no wear on the SSDs observable ... YMMV.
The total run time of the SSD is 11596 hours, lifetime reads 6,63 TB, lifetime writes 7,76 TB, SSD life left: 100%
As I can see there is no wear on the SSDs observable ... YMMV.