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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Clearing out my cache so I can upgrade from 6.10.xx to 7.0.28. I see I can separate the program directory and the data directory. Is anyone running the program on their OS drive with their data directory on a separate drive? Just wondering if this would be more efficient or better to leave everything one one drive. Appreciate any suggestions or tips.
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Yes, I'm running 6.10.58 (under Win7 64bit) with the data directory on a separate drive. In my case, the main reason is to keep the ever-changing data off my SSD which is reserved for o/s and program files. It also makes data backups simpler. The separate drive is a RAID 5 data volume. I don't recall any issues with setting up BOINC to use a separate drive for data.
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Falconet
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I am running on a dedicated partition. I think any speed gains come from being able to defragment quickly. I remember reading something(by SekeRob I think) that said something like 2-3% gains in performance.
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Bearcat
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I am running on a dedicated partition. I think any speed gains come from being able to defragment quickly. I remember reading something(by SekeRob I think) that said something like 2-3% gains in performance. Since your still on the same physical disk, would think your no different than all on same partition. Am using hard drive until ssd drives drop a little more for 500GB size. Will give it a shot to see how things go. When i go through the install, will boinc ask these questions before installation or do i have to select a advance install? Thanks for all the help.
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Coleslaw
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I noticed a difference on one of my machines back when I was running CEP2. I was running multiple CEP2 work units at a time and so the second drive was dedicated solely to BOINC. I also used an old 4GB hard drive from a scrapped PC to use solely as virtual memory to minimize disk access competition. Anyone running torrent files would probably find this setup helpful too.
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Sgt.Joe
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I am running on a dedicated partition. I think any speed gains come from being able to defragment quickly. I remember reading something(by SekeRob I think) that said something like 2-3% gains in performance. Since your still on the same physical disk, would think your no different than all on same partition. Am using hard drive until ssd drives drop a little more for 500GB size. Will give it a shot to see how things go. When i go through the install, will boinc ask these questions before installation or do i have to select a advance install? Thanks for all the help. You will need to select "Advanced installation" in order to specify the data directory location. Cheers
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Bearcat
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I noticed a difference on one of my machines back when I was running CEP2. I was running multiple CEP2 work units at a time and so the second drive was dedicated solely to BOINC. I also used an old 4GB hard drive from a scrapped PC to use solely as virtual memory to minimize disk access competition. Anyone running torrent files would probably find this setup helpful too. I installed a SSD drive for my page file awhile back. Definately makes a difference. Since both of my rigs have 24GB+ memory, didn't need to big of one. Thanks to everyone for the help. Should be installing tonight as my cache runs dry.
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Bearcat
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That was painless. 1 down, 1 to go when I clear the cache. Thanks again.
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