Hard drive advice?

[Winin]

I'm not quite ready to redo my whole system, but I desperately need a new hard drive (more space and in case this one dies). So for now, I'm going to just get a new drive and install my games and critical stuff (photos, docs, music) there.

I've got Win 7 64 bit. Any tips or suggestions on hard drives? What is the best bang for the buck these days?

Thanks,
--Winin

[Slurm]

Best bang for the buck would be to wait a while. Prices on hard drives are quite high (like, 3 or 4 times as expensive) right now because of the flooding that happened in Thailand.

[Winin]

Crud. I guess I can hold out a while longer. Its not like there are a bunch of really huge games out that I want to play...oh, wait. Someone is going to the chopping block.

[Rer]

Yea I've been in the need for a new one (mine isn't Mac compatible so it makes projects at school a pain), but they're all pricey as hell right now.

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[MeesterJamus]

Same here but I've been holding out for quite awhile. I luckily have a 1TB external I back things up on monthly and that I will be installing TOR onto, but I want a new internal HD that's larger than my current 80Gb, 8year old one...

[Winin]

I haven't tried installing a game on my external drive. Seems like it might be slow.

[Rer]

Depends on the game honestly. Single player games worked just fine for me on it, whereas sometimes MMOs hiccupd a bit.