Wanting to upgrade my 2 smaller hdd's to something bigger...need suggestions

[kenof2142]

Alright, here is my current setup:

Athlon x2 3800+
evga 7800gt
Silverstone psu 500w (dual rail sli ready)
2 hdd's, 1 is 80 gig 7200 rpm for o/s and programs the other is 80 gig 7200 rpm for songs/movies etc
3 gig of ram pc3200
mobo is asus (don't remember model number off top of my head and I'm at work)
I do have sata ports available as my current hdd's are setup using ata 100/133

What I'm wanting is faster hard drive read/write times along with more storage space. I currently have about 40 gig free on both but it's slowing down (ran defrag and spyware/antivirus). I kinda want this to be a last upgrade for a while on my computer until I start saving for my other build...but in the mean time, suggestions?

Budget is within 150 dollars.

[Scinto]

Re: Wanting to upgrade my 2 smaller hdd's to something bigger...need suggestions

10k rpm sata drives cost a small fortune to what they offer in the way of storage space,

you could easily get a few 250gb 7200rpm sata drives for $150

[kenof2142]

Re: Wanting to upgrade my 2 smaller hdd's to something bigger...need suggestions

I think I'm going to go with this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136003

Thoughts?

[imported_Mutrino]

Re: Wanting to upgrade my 2 smaller hdd's to something bigger...need suggestions

I think I'm going to go with this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136003

Thoughts?

That will give you all the storage you need for a while. However, dont expect any significant speed increase over the drives you have now. The only real way to make drive access significantly faster is by using a RAID configuration.