First and foremost, without a local hard drive there wouldn't be any place to store and run Chrome OS from. The main function of the hard drive is for caching internet files, which is something -ALL- browsers do.
Since you have limited space on Picasa, I would store images on the drive as well as my favourite mp3 collection for the moments I'm not connected to the net...
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