500 GB Mac Book Pro Hard Disk?

Hi all,
does anyone know which kind (manufacturer, ...) of 500 GB hard drive Apple uses in its 17" Macbook Pros?
Many thanks,
Michael

Correct. Before you install the OS, be sure to use Disk Utility (accessed via the Utilities menu when booted from the DVD) to format the drive with a single GUID partition and Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format.
You want the Seagate Momentus 7200.4, model ST9500420AS (the one without the G on the end).
If you like, you can get an external enclosure for the 320 GB drive you'll be removing, and use it as an external drive. If you go that route, instead of the above procedure, put the new drive in the enclosure, format/partition it as above, then use SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your current drive onto the new one. Test boot from the external drive, and if everything works, then physically swap the drives.

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