Questions about iomega external hard drive.

Hi guys, I own an iomega 1TB external hard drive. Till now I've been happy with it despite its fan tends to be noisy, but I'm facing a lack of space issue. Elgato's EyeTV pretty much took up most of it. Rather than buying a second hard drive I was thinking on replacing its internal disks. I opened it up and saw two 500GB with a connector I had never seen before. My question here is, if I bought two 1TB disks with the same connectors, could I just swap them? Would they work? Said new disks actually would come from a Sun's storage rack. Are disks compatible? I mean, would I be able to re-format it/them to be used with Leopard easily (like using the Disk Utility)? Would the iomega box recognize them and be able to handle them?
Once all above's sorted, I'll just have to worry about the data migration, which isn't any simpler at all. I know no-one who owns any storage solution that I could borrow to temporarily store all the data. And if go to anyone they might not have Mac-formatted disks.
Sorry if you think this post shouldn't be here. iomega won't help at all and I believe this Mac brotherhood can enlighten me through this odyssey.
If you need more info from both current and new disks I can email you pictures of the labels of both. Email me directly at [email protected]
Thanks in advance.
George...

All the commands remain grayed out when I click on various partitions. Maybe it's because I'm actually booted up on my external hard drive. I deleted several GB of files from my internal hard drive, but it still won't boot up. So it looks like I have a technical problem, and I'll have to visit my local Apple store. After I get it fixed, I'll take another look at re-partitioning my external hard drive.
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