30GB is more than sufficient for my needs - it's a straightforward and fairly minimal Debian installation; from memory the deceased drive is partitioned with 1GB for boot, 2GB for swap, 5GB for home, and the remainder for the root filesystem.
All our shared files are held on the second HDD - I'm considering replacing this at the same time as the other one; it's about the same age as the one that died so I suspect it's just a matter of time before it goes the same way.
Thanks again everyone for the input, I hadn't considered a SSD but it's certainly worth thinking about.
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