Should I buy a new drive?

Hi,

I am in the midst of assembling a new dual core system built around the Athlon 64 Windsor. So far, I've picked up an Asus M2N4-SLI mainboard, Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, and an eVGA nVIDIA 7600GT video card. All of this for under 5 bills thanks to the internet and wholesale pricing. :-)

I am wondering if I really need to upgrade my hard disk. I have a brand new Western Digital 120GB Caviar SE (8MB cache, Ultra ATA-100) that I purchased back in February when my <100GB drive was running low on disk space. I never installed the drive because I decided that it would be best to upgrade the entire system (2GHz Pentium 4 socket 478, 512MB PC2700 etc). Waited until the dual core processors came out and priced started to fall into the sub $200 range, and here we are....

Anyway, the WD drive was a good buy for $100 back in Feb. But now I can buy a 320GB SATA-3 drive from Seagate with a 5 year warranty for the same number of scoots. Is it really worth the money to do this? Yeah, "only" a hundred bux, but perhaps the hundred bux could be better spent elsewhere, say for another gigabyte of RAM.

Thanks in advance.

Keep the dosh

If you need more space later on HDDs are easy and cheap to buy.......worry bout buying one when you've filled your other one up.

In the meantime go get yourself a 100 quids worth of rubber