Best Choice For Second Internal Hard Drive

Hello, all...
I currently have a second internal hard drive (170 GB) and want to replace it with a larger one. Do you know what the best choice of manufacturer is for internal hard drives. The one I have now is a Maxtor. I'm looking to replace the 170 GB with a 500 GB.
Thank you!
DW
Power Mac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.10)   Tiger, 2.5 GHz, 2 GB DDR SDRAM, 2nd Internal Drive 170 GB

Hi-
Maxtor are good but so are Western Digital and Seagate. I have one of each.
The folowing has a good performance review of 500gb drives from the three makers:
http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200607/500_1.html
Based on that, and others on the forums will agree, Western Digital is currently the better choice.
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