Cruncher Down

[Otis11]

So... apparently my HDD went down in the night, so until I can get that fixed next week I'm going to try to run Boinc off of a USB stick.

Anyone know how well this will work? 4GB But I'm trying GPUGrid and WCG...

Details:

Ubuntu
2600K
2x 260s
6GB Ram
4GB "HDD"

Any ideas?

[MadMike261]

I guess linux since it is probably the smallest OS

I/O will probably be horrible though...so it could be slow

[sparkler]

install xubuntu on it as / only so no /boot /usr /home and defiantly no /swap then remove apps you don't need to save space then install and run boinc limiting the amount of days cached or use liveusb although thats very buggy and could give quite a few compute errors

[sparkler]

I guess linux since it is probably the smallest OS

I/O will probably be horrible though...so it could be slow

not if he uses a ramdisk

[CaptMorgan]

what happened, is it dead dead?

[desnudopenguino]

Try it, beats no hard drive. I've done it before on a 4 gig stick running ubuntu (on a p4 mounted on my wall). It worked, but I never ran it with an actual hard disk attached to compare.

[Bobsama]

Try it, beats no hard drive. I've done it before on a 4 gig stick running ubuntu (on a p4 mounted on my wall). It worked, but I never ran it with an actual hard disk attached to compare.

I ran an E2140 for quite a few months on Ubuntu installed on an 8GB thumb drive. I got 30+% more points than a Windows install.

[retro77]

Laptop hard drives on crunchers FTW. Low heat, they don't spin very fast.

Sorry for your loss bud!

[SuperPhrank]

I've had a bunch of older crunchers running ubuntu on 4gb flash drives. Haven't had a single problem with them. Just slow to boot up. Just ran WCG on them so I dunno about the GPUGrid.

[Otis11]

what happened, is it dead dead?

I don't think it's dead dead... but that might be wishful. (It had to be the only harddrive with information that isn't backed up. - Honestly all my other computers are either backed up or dedicated crunchers.)

I tried the flash drive but it says it cannot find a file system...

Thought I might have corrupted it when I used it for something else so I reinstalled and got more of the same... so IDK.

Got a final in an hour 40, but I'll mess with it after that.

[DAK1640]

You better get it up and crunching or the BOINC Police will ticket you.

[Nikolasz]

I got asus eee linux 11.04 os instaled hie speed usb stick (this usb stick is inside eee 701) . Works nice for wgc. If, Swap file used on ssd ide.
Laptop hard drives are good for low heat low power (like same speed as 3,5"?).
Fact is you can do w/e you want with linux

(Remember to select boot loader correctly) And select usb as hard drive in bios settings to boot your os.

[Jaco]

I've also had a system down due to a harddrive failure ...
One of my SAS drives gave the ghost so it seems ... I always thought SAS drives were very sturdy ?? Have had more problems with SAS drives then any other drive No more Raid0 for me , that's for sure...

I've re-installed Windows on a spare Sata2 drive and am crunching again.