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HardDrive Options

I'm running out of space on my machine at home ~20gb left. I use this computer only for games/music. It was a 160gb hd I bought when I first built this computer about a year ago it was on a budget so I went cheap. I only spent $380 in total and got 4gb ddr2 800 GSkill PI black ram, radeon 4890, amd 6000+ 3Ghz cpu and a 600watt psu. I think this guy is my current drive Newegg.com - Western Digital Caviar Blue WD1600AAJS 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive I got it on sale for around half that.

Anyway I'm considering Newegg.com - Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
only $50 for a 7200rpm multiplatter 1TB Now here's the question should I keep the 160gb drive as an Os drive and run the 1tb for Storage or run a single solution with just the 1Tb drive. Keeping my current drive and running both will involve a lot less work as I won't have to reinstall everything but it might be a tight fit to add another drive with the 4890 in there. Just going with the single drive would be a simpler solution and starting from a fresh format is always good but starting completely from scratch is always more work. Just to be clear there is nothing on the computer I don't want to lose save my music which is already backed up in multiple places.

I'm not really sure which direction I want to go any thoughts?
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