Boinc would do this to me as well when I had my computer go into hibernation, and using Windows XP. Turn off the hibernation, and turn your power scheme to Home/Office so the hard disc never shuts off and let Rosetta run all the time. If you don't want it running all the time, just shut the computer down instead of letting it go into hibernation. It still uses a bit power in hibernation. Mine is set to run Rosetta all the time, but to shut off the video display after 10 minutes, allowing more processor usage, and saves power. I aslo shut the monitor off, it also saves power. (I never understood offices that left their computers and monitors on and had the monitors running a screensaver. They must not care too much about their electric bill.)

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Boinc would do this to me as well when I had my computer go into hibernation, and using Windows XP. Turn off the hibernation, and turn your power scheme to Home/Office so the hard disc never shuts off and let Rosetta run all the time. If you don't want it running all the time, just shut the computer down instead of letting it go into hibernation. It still uses a bit power in hibernation. Mine is set to run Rosetta all the time, but to shut off the video display after 10 minutes, allowing more processor usage, and saves power. I aslo shut the monitor off, it also saves power. (I never understood offices that left their computers and monitors on and had the monitors running a screensaver. They must not care too much about their electric bill.)

hibernation doesn't use any more power than shutting down completely (both still use some power if wake-on-USB/LAN etc are enabled). Standby uses some power to maintain RAM.

I always set my hard drives to spin down when idle. Doesn't happen often with Rosie running but they may as well spin down if not in use.

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I always set my hard drives to spin down when idle. Doesn't happen often with Rosie running but they may as well spin down if not in use.

Two schools of thought on this..one is to do what you do as it saves drive wear and tear. The other thought is that spinning the drive back up wears the drive out faster. I have not seen a definitive answer on either method being better though. I do know that newer drives have avg MTBF's of over 100,000. MTBF is Mean Time between Failures. Dividing 100,000 by 24 then by 365 gives a bit over 11 years! Which may be why there is no test that can predict which way is better.

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I always set my hard drives to spin down when idle. Doesn't happen often with Rosie running but they may as well spin down if not in use.

Two schools of thought on this..one is to do what you do as it saves drive wear and tear. The other thought is that spinning the drive back up wears the drive out faster. I have not seen a definitive answer on either method being better though. I do know that newer drives have avg MTBF's of over 100,000. MTBF is Mean Time between Failures. Dividing 100,000 by 24 then by 365 gives a bit over 11 years! Which may be why there is no test that can predict which way is better.

this is true - i don't worry about the drives and just try to save some power. Don't wanna hijack the thread, but Google released some info on their experiences which had some interesting info such as: 'failure rates do not increase when the average temperature increases'

http://storagemojo.com/2007/02/19/googles-disk-failure-experience/

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