scwizard (OP)
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March 21, 2011, 06:04:22 PM |
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When I run bitcoin, my harddrive will constantly click. I can't run the program because the clicking drives me batty.
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Garrett Burgwardt
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March 21, 2011, 06:07:25 PM |
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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.
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TiagoTiago
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March 21, 2011, 07:32:48 PM |
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And backup your important data on another physical drive ASAP (google "click of death")
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SmokeTooMuch
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March 21, 2011, 08:51:31 PM |
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And backup your important data on another physical drive ASAP (google "click of death")
your wallet.dat for instance
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scwizard (OP)
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March 21, 2011, 10:08:40 PM |
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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.
When I download something in firefox it doesn't click, so it's not a function of how much data is being written.
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The Casascius 1oz 10BTC Silver Round (w/ Gold B)
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March 21, 2011, 10:27:01 PM |
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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.
When I download something in firefox it doesn't click, so it's not a function of how much data is being written. 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)
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Companies claiming they got hacked and lost your coins sounds like fraud so perfect it could be called fashionable. I never believe them. If I ever experience the misfortune of a real intrusion, I declare I have been honest about the way I have managed the keys in Casascius Coins. I maintain no ability to recover or reproduce the keys, not even under limitless duress or total intrusion. Remember that trusting strangers with your coins without any recourse is, as a matter of principle, not a best practice. Don't keep coins online. Use paper or hardware wallets instead.
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March 21, 2011, 11:26:51 PM |
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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.
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March 23, 2011, 04:55:46 AM |
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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!
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kseistrup
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March 23, 2011, 06:19:27 AM |
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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,
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Klaus Alexander Seistrup
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kseistrup
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March 23, 2011, 06:26:22 AM |
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And now we're at it: Is there a way I can prevent bitcoind from [writing to ~/.bitcoin/debug.log]?
$ bitcoind stop bitcoin server stopping $ cd ~/.bitcoin $ rm -f debug.log $ ln -s /dev/null debug.log $ bitcoind -server
Cheers,
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Klaus Alexander Seistrup
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