Increasing internal iMac HD memory- add a second internal HD for iMac9,1?

I have an iMac9,1, with Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz processor and only 150GB HD memory.  I have a 1TB external HD but want to increase internal memory- is this possible to do myself? In system profiler, it looks like there is a second "Serial-ATA"... Thanks!

Thanks to both of you.  I just saw there were two SATA devices and one is my maxed out hard drive:
WDC WD1600AAJS-40H3A0:
Capacity:          149.05 GB
Volumes:
Macintosh HD
  Capacity:          148.73 GB
  Available:          2.32 GB
I see now that the 2nd SATA space is occupied by the CD/DVD reader:
HL-DT-ST DVDRW  GA11N
I don't think I want to replace that with a harddrive at this time. 
I am concerned because my hard drive has gotten completely full (0 KB remaining) a few times, interrupting whatever I am working on, and I can hear faint clicking/grinding noise while it is running (sometimes it is louder than others).  I have deleted files to clear 1-2 GB at a time, but I keep filling it back up, and I am guessing it is not good to continue operating at 99% capacity.  It also recently made a horrifically loud noise when burning a CD or DVD that was very concerning to me...  I was hoping to add a second internal drive so I wouldn't have to backup and reinstall my current one, as I have a number of costly software applications (eg Office 2008, Adobe CD4, Prism, etc) that were just copied from an older harddrive and I have no software installation discs, or codes or licenses to reinstall those...
As a quick fix, I do have the 1 TB Lacie backup drive, so I'm wondering if I maybe I could just change my iTunes music folder location to the backup drive or something to clear an additional 40GB of HD space for now?

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