well thats spiffya few of the tutorials ive found online use Toshiba drives, the price difference isnt too far apart for 160GB drives (especially since im going to end up spending 600 sum dollars anyhow), so i'll probably go with that -- unless someone suggests otherwise.
Edit:
And, what do you all recommend (taking note that i am planning to get a new HDD):
(a)buy the 60gig model
(b)buy the 80gig model
(c)buy some other model
i know that the 60 and 80gig models are the same price and that the 80 comes with motostorm, but the 60 has the EE chip, which from what i understand isnt that big of a deal now that developers have patched games.