SSD or Solid State Drive is a storage device containing non-volatile flash memory, used in place of hard drive because of its much greater speed. Unlike a hard drive, a solid state drive doesnt have any moving parts. It has two main components - A flash controller and NAND flash memory chips.
More information on solid state drives can be had from here..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive
This guide differentiates SSDs in different tiers based on their DWPD, sustained writes, controllers and NAND types.
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NOTE - MANY MANUFACTURERS ARE REPLACING THE KEY COMPONENTS OF SSDS (CONTROLLERS & NAND FLASH) WITH INFERIOR COMPONENTS WITHOUT INFORMING THE GENERAL PUBLIC. THIS LIST IS BASED ON THE COMPONENTS (CONTROLLERS & NAND FLASH) THAT THE SSD CAME WITH AT THE TIME OF LAUNCH.
And that is a wrap people.... The event is officially....
DONE!!!!!!
Thank you to everyone who has joined in, you guys have really made it special and I hope that you all keep up the fold, even if it is a little more muted!
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updated version by Koppa315:
It will automatically scan all the slots and pause+unpause slots that are "Waiting On: WS Assignment" and have too high "Next Attempt"
Need to set host(s) and password(only if you use a password)
If you find an issue with it, let me know via message
Looks like this when running:
It access the clients API in a similar(much simpler) way that FAHControl or HFM.NET do
It won't restart slots that are still running and trying to download a new WU at the same time.
They would have been given a small number as a test bed to make sure it was all okay! Don't worry, the WUs will flow! This is standard practice as far as I know.
Forum event badges have been handed out for the 2019 event. Those who participated in the event and were eligible for the badge should now have it.
If there are any issues with the event badges please contact me. Keep in mind the minimum participation requirements for the event:
minimum requirements: 100k points, 20 WUs, and 20 days of having activity over the course of the whole month
The event badges are awarded as follows...
Newbie - Participated in 1 folding event
Veteran - Participated in 3 folding events
Fanatic - Participated in 5 folding events
If you participated in last years event as well as this one you will still be on the Newbie badge, however if you hover over the icon and click the (i) button it should pop up and tell you that you participated in both the 2018 and 2019 events.
If you participated in both events (everyone who participated in the 2018 event will also have the Event Founder badge) but your badge does not show participation for both 2018 and 2019 then you'll need to contact me.
Tho guys, in next update (in exactly 2 hours and 52 minutes from the moment of posting this), we will be rank 8 as we are gonna pass [H]ardOCP in around 2 hours. So congratulations everyone!
I'm fairly happy with my results from Folding@Home month. Just over 30 million points earned and I managed to stay within top 100 for the team (lifetime - currently rank 94). Little disappointed I couldn't manage to stay in the top 100 for the event, but that's just because there were so many dedicated folders this year it was hard to keep up!
The team did exceptionally well this year! Over 17 BILLION points earned for the event which is just crazy! Almost tripled last years results of around 6.5 Billion.
Can't wait to see how we do next year
Big thank you to everyone who participated this year whether you earned 1 million points or 500 million. Also big shout out to @GOTSpectrum and @Gorgon for the daily stats and organising the event, as well as everyone in the community who donated prizes to be given away.
Card has been a problem for a while now, not surprised it died. Currently looking at 290X's on ebay for $50NZD and going hmm... maybe. Only because I have the EK block for it lol.
I have lost my mind. My kids gaming rig on the left Has a rx 470 and athlon 200 ge folding away with a cx 450 powering it. I had a spare gpu but no extra space on the micro atx board for it. So i borrowed a friends old dell. The dell had no way of powering the gpu so i ran a molex supply out of the kids rig into the dell and used a molex to 6 pin connector to power the gpu. I installed linux on a spare hdd i had and failed failed failed again to get it working properly so i loaded up windows 10. Took me about 3 days of my spare time to get this up and folding but it is working away as we speak. . . All of this to add a HD 7850
I had a spare pcie slot on my main rig next to my gtx 1060 but that is now reserved for the gtx 1070Ti i just got off of fleabay that should arrive in a few days.
Good thing i didn't have any more extra money to burn this month or i would have a new rtx series card.
Number of rads + number of fans also increases PPD, so naturally I filled every possible mount location on my LD PC-V8 with EK XTX rads and 3k rpm vadar fans and liquid cool my ram for 200% more performance!
I don't have RGB though, that is why I'm not in 1st place I'm assuming.
bought some new stuff for my computer today but there's so many cables now that I'll either have to stop bothering trying to put the back panel on anymore or buy a new case lol, such a difficult life
I have two Titan Z (dual GPU) cards folding, and yup, each GPU shows as it's own slot and folds their own WUs. The heat output is insane as well, pretty sure they alone have melted an iceberg or two.