Recent content by Lord_Permafrost

It will also depend on how long you plan to run it before reinstalling, remember that windows updates will start to take up more space on the disk as time goes past. also are you planing to run mostly in windows or one of the others?

Might not meat your needs but http://www.parvumsystems.com/ might have something or can make something that would work and meet the look you want as well, and being in England the postage to you shouldn't be as bad as from the us

you can get a trial for them though

CBTNuggets have courses on ethical hacking

I would also strongly recommend cloning the drive, i haven't done this kind of work in years but something like Symantec ghost and make a copy of the drive that has failed. if you can write that copy to a new drive (good plan to replace the drive that has failed anyway) and then work on the copy...

no i edited it in, i'd mentioned it in the first reply but it wasn't easy to see. I have found a few examples of people water cooling in the case, and it has grommets for external rad (not that that's my plan)

Yep the Loop is not included in my max $3000. Case wise i have a http://www.nanoxia-world.com/product/1/2/Deep+Silence+2

Yep that does help, thanks

any one else got comments?

do you know how much space the drive used to say? it seems unlikely give the product sheet that you had it in RAID 1. you have a couple of options, 1) take the drive to a data recover specialist (This is cost, but it's more likely you can get your data back) 2) Download data recovery software...

Approximate Purchase Date: e.g.: Next month or so Budget Range: 2500-3000 (AUD) (about upto 2500 USD at a guess) After Rebates; Before Shipping System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, Virtual machines (lab) Are you buying a monitor: Yes Other information: I have a case...