Is there a downside to the "Buffer in memory" option?

[SSP]

The title says it all. I'd like to give my hard drive a break.

Thanks

 

[Russ]

If your systems crashes or reboots, you lose any blocks that weren't already flushed.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Ken g6]

Well, if you don't complete a work unit, you'll lose it when you shutdown the client. Your hard drive gets a break as long as the client is working on a work unit, unless you have a checkpoint file. That's yet another reason to have it work on large WUs.

 

[ViRGE]

It's pretty much what Russ said, except that you'll also lose your in-buffer.:Q

 

[SSP]

That sucks. I'll just move the client to the other smaller HD.

 

[xtreme2k]

if u get disconnected from the net

your client will end up running random blocks