The hard disk on my laptop has been suspect for several months and has now given up the ghost for good so I will be off line on the beta project for a while.

I used this laptop for the beta project and it was really struggling with the seti enhanced client, taking many days to complete (it never made it to the end of one of the really long WUs).

As such I am unsure if it is worth the expense of a new hard disk for this system. It was only used for two things 1) crunching BOINC SETI WUs and 2) as a store for digital photos when on holiday.

I could use the money to buy one of those small digital photo stores or I could buy a hard disk to fix my laptop.

From a SETI angle is it worth fixing my laptop? I was thinking if the enhanced client becomes the norm once the beta is concluded then would it may ever complete a WU before the deadline. Also the credit situtaion would work out in some respect as everybody would be running such long WUs. But as it is a low spec laptop it usually gets less credit than requested so would fall even further behind in the credit stakes.

Any thoughts?

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I could use the money to buy one of those small digital photo stores or I could buy a hard disk to fix my laptop.

That's one mighty expensive harddrive, if you can buy a small photo store for the same price. ;)

Naah, I know what you mean. Go for the storage adapter for your camera.
Then sell the laptop on eBay.

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I could use the money to buy one of those small digital photo stores or I could buy a hard disk to fix my laptop.

That's one mighty expensive harddrive, if you can buy a small photo store for the same price. ;)

Naah, I know what you mean. Go for the storage adapter for your camera.
Then sell the laptop on eBay.

Yip it certainly is a silly price. For the price of a 30GB hard disk for my laptop I could get a 250GB disk for my main PC. :-(

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