f/fgeorge wrote:
[...]

The problem on most laptops used for Seti or Boinc or whatever program
that uses the hard drive all the time is that the hard drive fails.
Laptop hard drives do not have the same life expentency of a desktop
hard drive. People have even gone to ram drives to store the data in

Good points.

An alternative is to set the Boinc preferences so that the disk isn't written to so often. You could set this to be for an hour for example.

The latest laptop HDDs have a large RAM cache so that the OS can make multiple writes before the disk is finally spun up to transfer data.


All good detail,

Happy crunchin',
Martin