Will I need a hardrive to go with this laptop?

[Jssy]

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Produc...IBA+LAPTOP.htm
My mum has already bought me this laptop for christmas and I'm a bit confused about the memory. It says 1gb Ram but 320gb harddrive so is that a fair amount? I'll be using it to store music on and djing and using facebook etc. Will this be enough or will I need to buy a hard drive? If so can someone suggest places that sell hard drives for a good deal please, thanks.

[triston220]

A 320GB harddrive should be plentiful unless you want to store a lot of music. Because of this, I wouldn't bother buying one now. If, in the event you do need to buy one, consider a 1TB drive which you can back up to while having plenty of space free. Check out eBuyer. I would consider getting a RAM upgrade though. Check this Crucial page for some cheap RAM. Although it's not an exact model match, the RAM should be compatible.

[Jssy]

I have around 500 songs at the moment

[:Markster:]

If music is the only thing you plan on storing on it then that should be enough... if you get up to 1000 songs and considering a good music quality file is about 10 MB that's 10000 MB or 10 GB of music, leaving plenty of space for everything else.

[beth]

thats a pretty big hard drive, i think i have a tiny one about 160gb and i have at least 6000 songs so

[Robbie]

The hard drive size is fine - you're probably going to want to upgrade the RAM though.

[Casio]

As said by everyone else, for your requirements 320gb is fine, I have 750gb and 6gb ram, and I use mine for only webdesign etc but yours will be fine, but consider upgrading your ram to 2GB, any more then that and youll have to change your OS to 64-bit, and that is so long.

[-Pants!]

If you want to buy an External Hard drive i recommend you buy it from www.ebuyer.com reason is because they have really good things for sale there and it really cheap!

I personally brought an 1TB External Hard drive about 3 months ago for £43.00 and im currently using it right now, i store movies and all sorts of stuff in it.

[Shox]

You should be fine if your not a power user, seems the laptop would be more classified as a, "netbook."

[Recursion]

As said by everyone else, for your requirements 320gb is fine, I have 750gb and 6gb ram, and I use mine for only webdesign etc but yours will be fine, but consider upgrading your ram to 2GB, any more then that and youll have to change your OS to 64-bit, and that is so long.

4GB or over, just sayin'