Morning yatahaze,

The program started life over at UD.COM back in 2001 and the points allocation was based on your CPU Power, Memory, Storage Space and your network connection because UD had plans to use all of those resources to provide customers with a Web Load testing solution. When a WU was returned the idea was that your PC would also hit some poor webserver with loads of requests so that the performance of that server under load could be proved with real random traffic.

As the WCG agent has been provided by UD this is why we are left with these 4 options. I think for WCG the network option has been "fixed" to 100 for everyone. I agree with you that the storage option is equally redundant as you are right the program only uses 17.5 Mb of your hard drive.

The bottom line is it really doesn't affect the program whatever value you choose for it. But as your points per hour score is affected by the value you should like that vast majority of WCG Crunchers set your Storage value to 10Gb as that way you will get the most points for your PC's time. BTW this is true even if you don't have 10Gb of space left on your disk drive

Happy Crunching

Dave