Hard Drive Failure on Rev 1 Macbook Air. What are my options?

My HD on my Macbook Air (Rev 1) 1.6 ghz 80 gb pata HD has failed. so I am going to have to take to it an Apple Service provider to fix. My question is what options do I have, I.e. Could I upgrade disk size, put in an SSD drive instead or is my only viable option to go for a like for like change. grateful anyones thoughts.
Thanks In advance for the help.
James

Lots of people have swapped out for SDD. If you are going through a service provider then best to ask them what they are comfortable doing. It may be they will only install what they supply and maybe only Apple authorized parts.
http://www.google.com/products?q=macbookair+ssdpata&hl=en&aq=f

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