Hacking Newbie with a few questions

[Cawk]

My disc drive has recently died, so no more playing backups from discs. I'm going to get an external hard drive and I have a few questions.

What's better to format my drive to, FAT32 or NTFS? Pros/cons of each?

What's a good brand to get? I've heard either Western Digital or Seagate will work pretty good, is this true?

What is a good size hd to get? I was thinking of getting a 500 GB one. How many games can that hold?

I know you can use your backup launcher (I'm using cfg usb by the way) to rip original games to your external hd. I have a dead disc drive though. Is there any other way I can do it?

I've found this one, is it any good? It says it's for Mac, but can I still use it for my Wii?

Thanks in advance.

 

[ddetkowski]

Just walk into your nearest BestBuy, get one for 50 bucks, 500 GB seagate.
Use Modmii from my sig, it'll tell you exactly what your wanting to know on all of this.....