With the price of traditional drives still fairly high, and showing little sign of lowering, if you’re interested in a new drive, jumping headlong into the market of SSD’s might be a smarter choice.
Tom’s Hardware have a rather nice article comparing different SSD’s from different budgets and giving you a good indication of what’s worth your cash or not.
Ah… how I do long for the days where 1TB drives were about the cost of a new game!