[Solved] Suggestions on Hard Drives

I'm looking to upgrade my 500 gig HD and would like help in deciding on what I should get.

Thinking 1 or 2 gig, but don't know how to go about selecting one. Could anyone help me out?

I use Windows 7 Ultimate. Current Drive is a green drive, wouldn't mind something that is a little speedier as well.

I'm sure that you mean 1 or 2 tb not gig. Hard drive prices are inflated right now and are expected to stay that way for 2012. If you wamt one now you are going to have to decide on how much you want to spend. As far as being speedier that will also depend on what you want to spend. A regular hard drive runs at 7200 rpm and so that makes almost all of them around the same speed. To get something a little faster you have to go to 10,000 rpm like the WD Veloceraptor but those come at 600gb. If you have a sata2 hard drive then you can get a sata3 hard drive if your motherboard has sata3 ports. Then you have something like this;

OCZ RevoDrive RVDHY-FH-1T PCI-E 1TB Hybrid Solid State Drive PCI-Express 2.0 x4 MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD
$499.99 and a $30 rebate makes it $469.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820227753

This is a hybrid hdd that plugs into a pci-e slot and has a small ssd on it for a cache and the rest of the hdd is a 1tb hdd. Read speeds of up to 910mb/s and write speeds up to 810mb/s. If you don't have the spare cash for something like that then you could get this if you have a sata3 port;

Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
$199.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822136533

to me you pretty much break it down to 4 options

1. buy an external hard drive to help store the downloads you have been deleting, you can find decent 1tb ones for around 100

2. buy a smaller ssd for your os and most used game or two, you can find good 60gb ssd's for around 70-80bucks. This will help with the speed but won't really help with the space you are looking for

3. buy a 500gb hdd for around 90 bucks and use that and create a total of 1tb with your older 500gb hdd

4. do a combo of the above options, like buy a ssd for you os and a few select apps and another 500gb hdd for extra storage

It pretty much comes down to how much room you "need" (at least for the next year or so since they are predicting that the hdd prices will start to drop in about that time), how important speed is to you, how much money you have to spend or want to spend, and personal preference

I think that $100 can buy a 1tb hdd with a little searching and since you said you wanted to wait then you can actually take your time and try to find a good bargan like a sale or rebate. Like this one;

http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=6 [...] omoid=1029

Best answer selected by TrickyNick.