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Dubslow · 2013-02-28, 18:45

Disk speed makes essentially no difference; checkpoints are written every half hour (excepting user interference), and most likely the OS caches those writes in memory anyways until shutdown or whenever it feels like flushing the cache.

(PS Prime95 can only make local backups so if the disk is non-recoverable, so is your work (unless you made off-disk backups). Please do unreserve it/them on PrimeNet, or add them to your current instance.)

2013-02-28, 18:45	#2
Dubslow Basketry That Evening! "Bunslow the Bold" Jun 2011 40<A<43 -89<O<-88 16065₈ Posts	Disk speed makes essentially no difference; checkpoints are written every half hour (excepting user interference), and most likely the OS caches those writes in memory anyways until shutdown or whenever it feels like flushing the cache. (PS Prime95 can only make local backups so if the disk is non-recoverable, so is your work (unless you made off-disk backups). Please do unreserve it/them on PrimeNet, or add them to your current instance.) Last fiddled with by Dubslow on 2013-02-28 at 18:46