Lenovo t410 with i5 and 9 cell battery is my reccomendation. Love my t410 to death, it's light, it's fast, it's not nearly as hot as my last laptop and it's very comfortable to use...
I wish, hard drives cost a lot more where i live than they do in the states.
It seems that i must destroy the volume to be able to remove the drive. At least now i know one very good reason not to use spanned/striped volumes. Suppose i'll use FreeNAS next and try ZFS.
I've been having problems with one of the hard drives in my server recently. Not long ago i installed server 2008 r2 on my server and made a spanned volume out of several different hard disks.
One of these disks has recently started to give errors and because of that the whole volume failed on...