• Hard Drives
• No Hard Drive?

In general, your first consideration here is whether this will be your primary machine, or just a cruncher.

If just a cruncher, you could probably install a 40 Gig 7200 RPM drive for approximately $85, and it would serve you well. You can, of course, get away with smaller, slower drives if you have them hanging around, but at the expense of some speed.

If this is to be your primary machine, then you probably want to put a large-capacity drive into it, especially if you will be downloading MP3's, etc. Look into larger capacity drives such as 130GB and larger. Also look into SATA drive systems if your motherboard supports it, and most now do.

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last modified: 2008-01-28 08:22:05

How about running on a thumb drive?
The BOINC website actually had some information relative to running BOINC on a machine without a hard drive.

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March 1, 2007
With BOINCpe you can run a dedicated BOINC machine using a RAM disk, starting from only 256 MB of total RAM. This lets you use machines without hard disk drives for BOINC.

Direct download: »www.schreiter.info/download/boin···.4.0.zip

More detailed discussion here: »gocoding.com/page.php?al=petousb

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