SSD Paranoia

[Pickster]

It took me a little while to jump on the SSD bandwagon, with their reliability/lifespan much improved I bought one a couple of months ago.

Still being a tad paranoid I went with the Crucial M4 since there was BSOD related to the Sandforce chipset in the other higher performing drives. The M4 isn't bad, just not the best.

Anyway, back to the actual topic, I'm still a little uneasy about the use of the drive. I have it as my O/S boot drive otherwise whats the point, but I have made dead sure that anything folding related is on a HDD so as not to bring the life of the drive down since I'm folding 24/7

So, am I being rightly cautious or just paranoid over nothing? Does anyone else keep their folding 'stuff' off their SSD?

 

[yassarikhan786]

I personally think you're being a bit paranoid.

I have everything folding related on my SSD. Although I only started folding this month.

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

Folding isn't the be all and all - if you lose a single day of PPD while you order a new drive for next day delivery I don't think Stanford are going to be writing angry letters

 

[kup]

I guess with the way Folding can produce more read/write cycles than other software, it cooould wear an out an SSD faster than normal but i think unless you have a faulty SSD, you'll be fine.

I was running both of my Linux rigs (the 970s) from a Bootable USB for months without issue.

 

[Pickster]

I guess with the way Folding can produce more read/write cycles than other software, it cooould wear an out an SSD faster than normal but i think unless you have a faulty SSD, you'll be fine.

I was running both of my Linux rigs (the 970s) from a Bootable USB for months without issue.

Unless I win the lotto, I don't intend to upgrade every year. My previous upgrade was in 2007, I don't expect to wait 4 years again, but it's atleast going to be 2 years.

And it would be quite nice if the SSD could be moved over to the next computer too. I don't want to kill it before its time.

 

[kup]

If you're going to have a classic mechanical drive as well (I assume so, for larger storage), then I'd just run Folding from that and it'll be perfectly safe and just as fast.

 

[Pickster]

If you're going to have a classic mechanical drive as well (I assume so, for larger storage), then I'd just run Folding from that and it'll be perfectly safe and just as fast.

Thats what I have done and wonderd if I was just being a tad paranoid

 

[alienware]

Other than their shelf life the SSD is more reliable than the HDD. Quite simply because it has no moving parts, so as long as like Kup says you have a good working one it will be less prone to failure because of heat or wear and tear.

 

[Pickster]

Other than their shelf life the SSD is more reliable than the HDD. Quite simply because it has no moving parts, so as long as like Kup says you have a good working one it will be less prone to failure because of heat or wear and tear.

Yeah, they are great. I'm just worried about needlessly using up write cycles by folding 24/7. Hence the folding stuff being on a HDD rather than the SSD.

 

[yassarikhan786]

I thought you were being a bit paranoid before, but I've moved my folding stuff onto my hard-drive now, lol.

 

[Pickster]

I thought you were being a bit paranoid before, but I've moved my folding stuff onto my hard-drive now, lol.

Glad I could help!?!

 

[hmmblah]

I've been folding on my SSD for over a year now with no issues. SSDLife still rates my SSD at 98% too. Really folding doesn't do too much writing. It's only writing checkpoints or downloading the WU data. It's not like F@H is constantly thrashing your drive while it's running.

 

[VoraciousGorak]

I Fold onto my HDD instead of my SSD purely because there's no reason to put it on the SSD and reduce said lifespan with small writes that eat write cycles for full SSD blocks. I've thought about just having everything Folding-related on a USB drive so I can set my HDD to go to standby during periods of inactivity, for that matter.