noobie needs help regarding hard drive =/

[kingforlife]

Hello I have a few newbie questions here so youll have to bare with me.I want to get a hard drive for my ps2 but im not sure which one i should get except maybe that I want one in between 40 and 80 gigs if possible.Now I have a mod chip installed which I dont have any problem playing any games on.

1.I live in the U.S. so maybe if anyone knows where I can find a cheap hard drive for the ps2,maybe on sale? =)

2.Will i be able to play my original ps2 games online,like socom 2 with this hd?


3.and last but not least ive got a few games on to dvd+r and i did notice they take sometime to load,but they are still playable.Now with this hd would that mean that these long loading times and what not and the skipping would go away?

well thanks again for your help.