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Title: Bitcoin is abusing my harddrive Post by: scwizard on March 21, 2011, 06:04:22 PM When I run bitcoin, my harddrive will constantly click. I can't run the program because the clicking drives me batty.
Title: Re: Bitcoin is abusing my harddrive Post by: Garrett Burgwardt on March 21, 2011, 06:07:25 PM Good to know?
Odds are you are still downloading the block chain and once that is done it won't access your hard drive much more. Regardless, a clicking hard drive is a bad sign. You might want to invest in a new one. Title: Re: Bitcoin is abusing my harddrive Post by: TiagoTiago on March 21, 2011, 07:32:48 PM And backup your important data on another physical drive ASAP (google "click of death")
Title: Re: Bitcoin is abusing my harddrive Post by: SmokeTooMuch on March 21, 2011, 08:51:31 PM And backup your important data on another physical drive ASAP (google "click of death") your wallet.dat for instanceTitle: Re: Bitcoin is abusing my harddrive Post by: scwizard on March 21, 2011, 10:08:40 PM Good to know? When I download something in firefox it doesn't click, so it's not a function of how much data is being written.Odds are you are still downloading the block chain and once that is done it won't access your hard drive much more. Regardless, a clicking hard drive is a bad sign. You might want to invest in a new one. Title: Re: Bitcoin is abusing my harddrive Post by: casascius on March 21, 2011, 10:27:01 PM Good to know? When I download something in firefox it doesn't click, so it's not a function of how much data is being written.Odds are you are still downloading the block chain and once that is done it won't access your hard drive much more. Regardless, a clicking hard drive is a bad sign. You might want to invest in a new one. It could be that you have bad sectors that were allocated to Bitcoin-related files. Bad sectors often cause clicking, and they could be assigned to any file, not just Bitcoin, just as a matter of probability. I'd have to hear the clicking to know for sure. But Bitcoin is not a hard-drive-intensive application. I suggest backing up important files and at least running a diagnostic to make sure the hard drive isn't on its last leg. (hard drives use forward error correction to silently recover from the beginnings of failure, then they offer a diagnostic feature called S.M.A.R.T. so you can catch the failure before the whole drive is ruined) Title: Re: Bitcoin is abusing my harddrive Post by: Distribution on March 21, 2011, 11:26:51 PM I just lost a hard drive (RIP WD3200). Luckily there wasn't a lot on there (ironically, most of it was back up data from my main hard drive), but it sure taught me a lesson.
Title: Re: Bitcoin is abusing my harddrive -Time for some FixerUppping? Post by: TinkerToyTech on March 23, 2011, 04:55:46 AM I realize that a) the drives have s.m.a.r.t. and b) it may still be under warrentee but would this be a job for
GRC Corp's Spinrite ? As BitCoin as just a uch an intellectual exercise as it is a real way to make virtual money it was Spinrite that made everyone's BitCoins' worth a couple USD more. Perhaps a little Supprt for the TWiT Network Show and Steve Gibson's program? You very well may have Spinrite in your tech support toolbox already, if you don't I reccommend it for all spinning discos (drives not balls) @TinkerToyTech on the twitter @GRC GRC Corp on the twitter @NoAgenda #inTHeMorning! Title: Re: Bitcoin is abusing my harddrive Post by: kseistrup on March 23, 2011, 06:19:27 AM Odds are you are still downloading the block chain and once that is done it won't access your hard drive much more. On Linux the file ~/.bitcoin/debug.log is constantly being appended to. As I'm writing this message my desktop machine has an uptime of 1d 6h 33m, and the debug.log file — that (re)starts from zero lines at bitcoind invocation — contains 443'528 lines with a total of 16'109'442 bytes. This means that bitcoind on average writes more than 8 KiB / 242 lines to disk every minute.(And now we're at it: Is there a way I can prevent bitcoind from doing so?) Cheers, Title: Re: Bitcoin is abusing my harddrive Post by: kseistrup on March 23, 2011, 06:26:22 AM And now we're at it: Is there a way I can prevent bitcoind from [writing to ~/.bitcoin/debug.log]? Code: $ bitcoind stop Cheers, |