Folding@home,Boinc, And your SSD

[MillerPanda]

Hello everyone.Got a two part question for you all.

(1) How many of my fellow Boinc/F@H users use SSD as the only storage solution in you setup? 

(2) How much "wear and tear" do they put on the life span?

i know the core of both use cpu and gpu and dont really load up storage, but you do download every work unit.

I run a SSD with a hard drive back-up that is done every night, so i am not really worried about it. But as new, larger M.2 drives come out, i have been thinking of going just M.2

Thanks for any input or data.

 

[tobben]

Depends on how much gear you are folding

with i suppose, how much you have to

download/upload.

 

I haven't actually tested this, but assuming

this unknown drive can fill up several times

over before showing any significant wear.

I doubt 1-2GB a month is going to be the

deciding factor on the lifespan of the drive.

[Petoovee]

My outdated memory on the matter is telling me something in the orders of 5-25MB downloaded/uploaded per work unit. I can find absolutely no source on that though, but from what I see on the "preparing" state, with my download speeds, it can't be much more than so. Once the work unit is in place, I see little reason as to why it would write to your disk except for the saving thing that happens every set amount of time, configurable in the software, but even then I can't imagine it spends many write cycles.

 

I could be wrong though.

[MillerPanda]

9 hours ago, tobben said:

Depends on how much gear you are folding

with i suppose, how much you have to

download/upload.

 

I haven't actually tested this, but assuming

this unknown drive can fill up several times

over before showing any significant wear.

I doubt 1-2GB a month is going to be the

deciding factor on the lifespan of the drive.

the drive in question would be a intel 600p 1TB drive, folding on a 980ti and boinc on the 6700k cpu

my Best guess is that the pc would be due for a update before the drive gave out, but i was having a hard time finding number on work unit size

[tobben]

17 hours ago, MillerPanda said:

the drive in question would be a intel 600p 1TB drive, folding on a 980ti and boinc on the 6700k cpu

my Best guess is that the pc would be due for a update before the drive gave out, but i was having a hard time finding number on work unit size

Having a difficulty finding an actual list 

or anything of the sort, but if you look

at your log, you can see the download

and upload size of each wu. Take into

account the time spent and you can
conjure some kinda rough approximation.