Harddrive upgrade question

I have an early '09 Macbook with a 160gb hard drive. I'm looking to upgrade the hard drive to a 500 gb hard drive, but I also plan on getting a Brand new Macbook Pro in about a year before going off to College for film editing. Basically I want to know:
1. What kind of Hard Drive should I get? Someone point me in the right direction as to from where or so.
2. Is the hard drive compatible with my older Macbook and the New Mac Book Pro's. Is there a set type or what?

You can use any SATA notebook drive. Start at macsales.com. No doubt any notebook drive will be compatible with today's Macs as well as tomorrow's. You can find some reviews at Bare Feats, Storage Review, and Tom's Hardware Review.

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