Suggestion for replacement of HDD on my dv7t-CTO

My laptop is now about 3 years old and works ok, but my 250 GB hard drive is too full, despite deleting and archiving of photos, music, etc.

I would like suggestions as to what size of disk hard I should think to (I think a 1 TB) but am open to suggestions.  I've never done it by myself, but am pretty tech savvy and will have my full hd saved so I can just do a restore when the new hard drive was installed.

Is this what I should that knowledge/think about it before trying it by myself?

Thanks for the suggestions - I ended up going with a little less storage and went with the 750 GB WD Scorpio Black 7200 RPM. I replaced my drive yesterday all by myself after watching a training video on YouTube and then even discovered how to partition my new HDD after the fact...

Proud of me - it was really quite easy!

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