New Hard Drive suggestions?

My existing Hard Drive is starting to get pretty full, so I need to get myself a new one, and put my existing one in to a caddy or something.

The problem here is that I don't quite know what to do. Do I get a huge 1TB Hard Drive that I can store just about everything on? Or is that putting all of my eggs in to one basket?

Now i'm pretty much a novice when it comes to which brands of Hard Drives are reliable, and which ones aren't. I have a Maxtor Hard Drive (About 300GB) that's served me pretty well for a year, but is there anyone who I should look out for/avoid?

General advice would be great. I'd like to get my hands on at least a 750GB Hard Drive (with a SATA connection). Also, what's a good speed for a Hard Drive? I'm sort of in the dark about that too. I'm having a look at some Hard Drives on eBuyer right now and a lot of them say 7200rpm. Is that good?

General advice would be great, after that, I know what to look out for. Thanks in advance. If anyone could recommend a good caddy for my existing hard drive, that'd be great too.

Ok when it comes to hard drives there's not much too it.

Speed wise almost all 3.5" (desktop) hard drives are 7,200 rpm except VelociRaptors there 10,000 but there very expensive and i don't think they go much past 250GB. So pretty much just go for 7,200RPM.

Make wise I would say what ever make a hard drive is a hard drive but some of the mean makes are Maxtor, Western Digital, Seagate and Samsung.


Size wise its up to you get how much you need and a bit more. I wouldn't say it matters if you have a 1tb HDD or four 250GB HDD's although the chances are the 1tb one would have a higher cache making it slightly faster but if you have multiple HDD's then there's the safety of not losing all your data....