Does macbook pro work with Seagate G protection 500g 7200rpm??

I bought Mac Book 13" 2.53Ghz Model few days ago.
I try to upgrade my 250G HDD to Seagate G-protection 500g 7200rpm
Just now, I asked clerk by ichat , and she said Mac Book Pro 13" Model doesn't make that writing speed. But I read some review of upgrading HDD with 7200rpm on MacBook Pro 13" and that works well.
So I don't know which one is correct?
Also Still now is there a problem with Seagate G-protection 500g 7200rpm like click, beep, freeze??

The speed of the disk is completely irrelevant, Moonseok.
You can use a 10,000rpm SATA drive if you like.
Your most likely problem is that you have not booted from your OS DVD (put the MacBook pro Disk 1 in the drive and hold down the "C" key while turning the computer on) and then used Disk Utility (from the installation discs 'Utilities" menu) to partition and format the new drive for use with a Mac.
You need to use a GUID partition scheme (under "Options" in the "partition" tab when using Disk Utility) and "HFS+ (journaled)" for the File System.
Most "bare" drives come partitioned and formatted just for PC use using FAT 32 or NTFS format , so you need to change this before you try to install the Mac OS X when fitting them in a Mac if you want to be able to "boot" from the drive.
Cheers
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