How to increase Serial ATA

Hi.
I'm wondering the best way to upgrade the capacity of my Serial ATA. I currently have the standard Hitachi HTS723232L9SA62 with 320.07 GB capacity. I have used all of this capacity and not sure how to increase the capacity. I continuously get messages telling me that my start up disk is full. I have deleted as much information as i can so i think memory upgrade is the best solution (already have an external time capsule). I don't really know a lot about computers so an easy memory installation is preferable. Im looking to increase my memory to about 600GB to 1TB worth of capacity. What is the best Serial ATA that will do what I want it to do? (prefer to buy from the Apple store but either way is ok)
Thanks for all your help.

Hi smonty, not sure which part of Australia you are in, but our nearest equivalent to "MacSales" (as recommended by Kappy and many others for US purchases) for on line purchase is probably "MacFixit". They stock much the same sort of range. see http://www.macfixit.com.au/shop/index.php?_a=viewCat&catId=115 for some of their hard drives.
Another good source is "Palaeographics" whose "on line" store goes by the name of "buymac" - see http://www.buymac.com.au/store/computer-addons/hard-drives-and-storage/internal- hard-drives/25-sata-hard-drives for appropriate drives, though I'd personally be wary of the Samsung models mentioned there.
To transfer your files to the new drive you are really going to need to buy an external enclosure as well to put the old drive in after installing the new one.
Cheers
Rod

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Dec 22 05:23:44: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
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Dec 22 05:25:17: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
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Dec 22 05:25:31: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
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Dec 22 05:25:45: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
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Dec 22 05:26:15: --- last message repeated 2 times ---
Dec 22 05:26:21 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAIDMember::synchronizeCacheCallout: failed with e00002ca on 3C6E9EA4-831A-457A-8CA5-6E7E9CBEED25
Dec 22 05:26:51: --- last message repeated 4 times ---
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Dec 22 05:27:33: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
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Dec 22 05:27:40: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 22 05:27:40 8way kernel[0]: AppleRAIDMember::synchronizeCacheCallout: failed with e00002ca on 3C6E9EA4-831A-457A-8CA5-6E7E9CBEED25
Dec 22 05:28:24: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
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Dec 22 05:28:39: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
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57A-8CA5-6E7E9CBEED25, set byte offset = 222462894080.
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offline.
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Dec 22 05:34:06: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
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offline.
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offline.
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E0)
Dec 22 05:37:59 8way kernel[0]: disk4: data underrun.
Dec 22 05:37:59 8way kernel[0]: jnl: disk4: dojnlio: strategy err 0x5
Dec 22 05:37:59 8way kernel[0]: jnl: disk4: end_transaction: only wrote 0 of 40960 bytes to the journal!
Dec 22 05:37:59 8way kernel[0]: disk4: media is not present.
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