Right, I need a new hard drive. I now have more free space on my flash drive than on my hard drives, and thats not even all my essential content on the computer. 240GB is no where near enough. I know I need at least 1TB if not 2, so what drives are good these days, and also would it be better if I RAIDed hard drives together if I got multiple or just leave them as seperate drives (and I cbf with patitioning it just causes me problems).

Alternatively, you people "in the know", expecting any price falls soon?

Samsung Spinpoint F1s are about £70 now (damn, £15 price drop in the last few weeks), they are the best HDDs around in most people's opinions;
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143288

As for RAID, I wouldn't bother. You could JBODs if you want to have a 2TB partition, and then you wouldn't stand to lose data as you would if you go RAID 0 (it is recoverable, but it's damn annoying to do).

Woo cheaper stuff

Anyway, something I forgot to put in the first post, would it be possible (to save me the hastle) to just move all my data from one hard drive to another so I don't have to reinstall?

It should be possible (maybe use a ghosting tool), but I've never tried it.

I would recommend Backup Exec System Recovery (BESR) from Symantec for that. It costs about £50 for a desktop license but it's damn good... and could become an invaluable tool for you in general as it allows you to ghost an image to a machine with completely different hardware. It's swish, we use it at work and it not only works (which is obviously good) but it does it very quickly, and the image files are compressed hugely.

i may be getting a new hard drive soon as well ;o

Stop hijacking my threads

k im sorry i just wont type in them anymore

lol naa I think i'll leave all that to bratty

making movies takes up far too much space D:

I ordered a 1TB hard drive, cheap discount delivery last night at 6pm arrived today I gotta go home and get my sata cables

Heh, I would ahve just spent the extra £1 on a new one

Samsung drive?

Also, first order has to be delivered to the cardholders address. Thats the big killer

Ohhh, yeah, I figured you may have ordered from them b5efore.

Woo! Installed and after an hour and a half, all 160GB of data from the old hard drive was on the new one, get Windows to fix the boot record and it's done.

Only thing though... my computer says its Channel 0 slave. I didn't think SATA things had anything like that?

There are so many different types of RAID controllers and BIOS options for SATA drives. It's likely to show a different name on every computer, heh!

Mine says ASUS Speeding Disk, which sounds uber.

Mine gives channels with master and slave for some reason, aswell.

And heres the final result

Now why does the techious folder have a new icon and the others have an old icon?

Ones FTP (which they made new stuff for) and the other two are WebDAV (which they didnt)

It appears I may need more space lol

WHAT, HOW!?

Random - I have about 2.3TB of storage in this room