Or sapphire #6?

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And me, I don't worry about the hard drives too much. My experience is that failures will usually occur as DOAs or within first week of use, and then....well, I wouldn't want to be paid at intervals dictated by hard drive failures. Properly cooled and isolated from physical shocks, they're pretty dependable. If you're worried about it, run WCG on a mirror set (RAID 1). Putting the BOINC data directory on a mirror set will provide you with a "hot" back-up and also spread reads out across two drives.

(My opinions are my own - but they are derived from experience ranging from hundreds of PCs to babysitting Vaxen that were being hit hundreds of people 24/7 - and which only suffered one hard drive failure across several Vax generations, IIRC. Now a laptop? They'll have hard drive failures at a much higher rate as they take many more physical shocks and their cooling system is less robust - and more likely to intake interesting thermal insulators like cheese doodle dust. )

lolll....I've been rather narrowly focused on CEP2, but with the thought that bringing about a massive reduction in the amount of toxins introduced into the ecology - particularly into the air - will be helping the work of WCG cancer projects from the other end: By reducing *cause.

Just no additional badges for it.

(*And before somebody lambastes me and insists that introducing tonnes of combustion byproducts replete with both naturally occurring and artificially introduced chemical compounds into the atmosphere has nothing to do with cancer incidence, let us just agree to consider that my "personal" opinion and let it go at that, eh? Humor me, as it were...)

With the mid day update; 6,100,000 points, 6100 work units completed, and 6 years of run time.

A minor accomplishment compared to long-term people here: Gold

Just got gold myself. On to ruby next!!!