To get back to to thread originator's original question. Yes, I swapped it the week it came about about what... 2years ago. I threw a 160 gb drive in it, just because. It's not like there's any content to put on it. And I have LINUX running on one of the partitions, not bad except for when I hooked it up HDMI then I had trouble with my Logitech Cordless Media Board for the PS3.
Linux runs great on it though, and actually use that once in a while, especially when guests come over.
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