500GB HD Recommendation

I am planning on adding a 500GB internal drive to my Power Mac G5 / 2GHz Dual machine (Mac OS 10.4.8). It would either be use either as a boot or storage drive.
I have a Maxtor MaxLine 300GB (7V300F0) in the second bay but I want to replace the Maxtor 150 GB (boot drive) that originally came with the Power Mac.
I am looking at the following drives:
- Maxtor MaxLine 500 GB (7H500F0)
- Western Digital Caviar SE16 (WD5000KS)
- Western Digital RE2 (WD5000YS)
I am leaning towards the Caviar but it only has a 3 year warranty and no published MTBF information.
The RE2 has 5 year warranty but it has TLER, NQC.
What is TLER and NQC and do I really need them? I also read somewhere, something about needing to turn off TLER in a non-RAID environment. How is that done?
Thanks.
PS -- I have included below the links to the PDF spec sheets for the above drives as reference.
Maxtor MaxLine 500 GB
http://www.maxtor.com/files/maxtor/en_us/documentation/data_sheets/maxline_pro_500_data_sheeten.pdf
Western Digital Caviar SE16
http://www.wdc.com/en/library/sata/2879-001144.pdf
Western Digital RE2
http://www.wdc.com/en/library/sata/2879-701176.pdf
Power Mac G5 / 2GHz   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

Don't get a Western Digital, I have an 80 from them and it has been send in for replacement about 6 or 7 times. Get a Maxtor (Mine Lasted about 4 Years) or a seagate.

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