![]() In fact, Microsoft thinks a page file is ideal for use on an SSD. I have been reading about SSDs ever since the first generation a couple of years ago, and the real experts don't see a problem. I don't know if there is anything special about WHS in terms of disk usage, but the argument against SSDs seems to be pinned mainly on the page file. I'm lazy and hate to do anything manually that can be automated. ![]() I at least hope to fix it so that it starts on its own without manual intervention. Will keep looking though.īTW I have BOINC running as a service on all of my other machines and had hoped to do it on the new one but if I can't then I can't. I've been studying the online assets about WHS but so many of the sites and postings seem to be from the initial release timeframe. That means I'm in the market for a new case, 2ea 2tb drives, motherboard, and processor. I already have the memory, power supply, SSD, optical drive, flash memory reader. My understanding is that WHS will use the first drive it finds as the system drive so my hope is to trick or force it into using the SSD for that. I already have the SSD so there is no money to be saved there. Good luck if you decide to go that way! I've been very happy with the combo. This allows me to control and monitor BOINC on all my PCs, including the WHS one, from a single PC without using RDT. The only minor "glitch" I found is that if the WHS machine is restared you must RDT and login in to get BOINC started which has occurred about every other month when MS sends patches that require a WHS restart. I do not use the BOINC screen saver and run it in Advanced View/Accessible View. I did not select Run as Service or Allow control by Any user. I then remote desktop'ed to the server, created WCG\Pgm and WCG\Data folders on the WHS C: drive and installed BOINC there under the Administrator account. To install it I copied the BOINC install exe to a user folder I created in the WHS Software share. WHS provides me backup security with crunching WUs as a bonus. I've used two different low end processors in that time, a single and dual core AMD. I have been running the WCG version(s) of Win BOINC on a WHS machine for 2.5 years without problem. Re: BOINC on Windows Home Server Computer? The big question is will it crunch BOINC units or will I be better off not buying WHS and just using one of my old XP SP3 licenses? Some of these items are on hand others are to be purchased. Proposed hardware: Gigabyte GA-H57M-USB3 motherboard, i7 860 processor, 64gb SSD for system files, 2ea 2tb data drives, 4gb memory, + the other needed fiddly bits. Has it been done? Is any guidance available? The problem is that I don't know if or how BOINC could be installed on such a machine. While I'm at it I figured that I could just as easily put an i7 processor motherboard into it and use it to crunch WCG work while it is idle. I am planning on building a new "server" machine for my home network. I am unable to find anything useful using forum search - far too many results and no way to refine the search so I will try a new thread.
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