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Right, I've seen the W540 as well, but I guess I'm thinking longer term since my previous laptop, the T61, was used for 5 or so years. In that time, I'm not too confident about Lenovo's workstation plans...

> I am a little jealous of a W530/W540 owner. You can have RAID SSD and 32GB of ram.

There's also an available mSATA slot. I have 3 SSDs on mine, but I think I went too far.

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You did not. Use all available resources I say! In my MBP I have 1 TB SSD and a 1TB rotational drive (replaced the DVD drive) for backups (runs an rsync every hour ssd->platter). When the reliability is proven I will run dual 1TB SSD and rsync to a networked machine. My Samsung 840 EVO has been stellar. You don't need Hadoop when you have fast disks.