I was about to ask where the mounting area for the hard drive was, but then I realized you could just plug in a USB Flash Drive and use that as your boot drive with a linux-bitcoin distro.
Or, if it is supported, possibly a USB3 flash drive. Not sure of actually real world usage, but some of the reviews I have seen possibly put it at least on par with PATA drives (according to Wikipedia, PATA can do up to 133 MegaBytes/sec. USB3 apparently can do 640 MegaBytes/sec, plenty of room to breath).
Yeah, it could defiantly use a HDD mount. One could be added pretty easily, especially if you can harvest a 3.5" mounting frame from the mini tower case.
I don't bother because I boot my rigs off a 32GB compact flash in a SATA bridge. The system see's it as a 32GB SATA drive.
Nice. is it sad that the first and only Compact Flash card I have every owned, and still have, is an 8 MegaByte one?