I thought I'd post a follow up for my previous post on the MSDN Hard Drive Pilot Program. Although it was an excellent idea I had a lot of problems getting my hard drive to update to the latest versions. Finding and reporting the new versions of software was fine; it was just actually performing the update that failed. Despite reporting the problem to the development team they were unable to resolve my problem and in the end I abandoned using it and reverted back to using my MSDN DVDs.
I am sure that in the long run this will prove to be the way to go for MSDN. However, the system needs some more development before releasing it to the general public.