Hard Drive upgrading for Early 2007 model MBPro

As the subject states, I'm looking to upgrade the HD for my MB-Pro 17" and I'm wondering what I need to know specifically about the HD. I'm looking at getting the Seagate Momentus 7200.4, which is a 7200rpm 500gb hard drive. The specs seem to say that it's a 2.75 in. HD where most are 2.5 correct? (Specs are posted below). I guess my basic question is, what will fit in my MBPro?
Height (in/mm) 0.370/9.5
Width (in/mm) 2.75/69.85
Depth (in/mm) 3.951/100.35

You are miss reading the specs. Momentus HD's are 2.5 in high.
"Seagate delivers desktop-like performance with the Momentus 2.5-inch laptop hard drive. Seagate Momentus drives offer high-capacity storage while conserving battery life. Perpendicular recording technology provides increased hard-drive storage capacity—up to 500 GB on a 2.5-inch drive in both 7200-RPM and 5400-RPM models."

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bretonnia wrote:
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