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 Buying a Hard Disk Drive: First of all, always buy new. You have no idea what has been left on an old hard disk, especially in todays world. In addition before you buy ensure that you will either recieve a manual, or that the company website is a good one. You will probably need to reference at least one or the other. You basically have the choice of two types of hard disk. EIDE or SCSI. SCSI provide a much faster rate of transfer and historically they were far more expensive. However, they have came down in price and whilst still a little more expensive it is now more of a matter of choice rather than strcitly price. Most people tend to stick to EIDE hard disk at least for their primary drive. In terms of speed 5400 RPM drives are slow and are starting to age. 7200 RPM is better but if you can afford higher RPM drives even better. Bear in mind though that you will need to buy a "system cooler(fan) and the faster the hard drive the hotter it gets. In addition if you "plump" for the SCSI then you will need to buy an interface also. Removable Storage: Whilst on the subject of hard disk you will also need some sort of removable storage. Most commonly it is a floppy disk drive. You will be mazed at how often you will need to use a floppy even for that one file from work. Just buy a floppy disk drive that looks alright and works. In addition you might want to consider the CD-R/CD-RW or even a DVD rewriter.
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