Seti Question

[MoFunk]

Does anyone know if Seti CLI will be affected if the hard drive goes to sleep? In my relentless persuit of a quiet PC i am finding that the hard drive is rather loud . I would like to set it to shut off after say an hour but if it will mess with Seti then I wont. Thanks in advance and Go Bandits! Well actually I am now just rooting for a big ol flush from OK's proxy!

 

[micron]

Yes, I'm pretty sure shutting off the harddrive effects SETI.

 

[serialb]

Putting HD to sleep will definitely hurt WU times, as SETI constantly writes on your HD.

 

[Poof]

Since SETI is writing updates to the state file, you might consider a batch file that copies the seti directory to a RAM disk (and then the writes would go to RAM rather than the hard drive). At some point in the batch file, you could have it write to the hard drive as a permanent record in case the machine cuts off. But otherwise, the RAM disk idea would keep the HD accesses down and let it sleep.

Note that this will NOT speed up SETI (as some have purported), but would merely reduce the need for the drive to spin up.

 

[MoFunk]

Thanks guys. I have never set up a ram disk before so I will just leave the hard drive alone. I did see an interesting article about running laptop hard disks in a raid config with a desktop system to get pretty good performance as well as being very quiet. It is interesting, look here. Thanks again guys.