I got a 320gb sata external for $100. Its laptop size and cost me less to buy that and pull the drive than to buy a second drive for my laptop. Thats the cheapest I've seen that size. Check
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I have an HP DV9720 17" laptop. I've upgraded the hard drives to dual 320GB and doubled the ram to 4GB. Seems to work pretty well for me.