I want to upgrade my hard drive from Standard 500 HHD to a SSD on my macbook pro non-retina mid 2012

I have two choices I'm going to install the hard drive internally and I want someone who has an idea about this now money isn't a problem and they are both close to each other. I want to buy one of these two can someone please tell me which is best.
1- http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Micron/C400512G25/
2- http://www.crucial.com/store/partspecs.aspx?IMODULE=CT480M500SSD1 and http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Crucial/CT480M500SSD/
By the time I do this of me I am also going to have a 16 GB RAM instead of the 4 Gb
Now remember my MacBook Pro 15" non-retina mid 2012 i7 2.3 Hz

First, see my one and only user tip -> Upgrading your MacBook Pro with a Solid State Drive. It has some tips that may be of help.
Secondly, either of the drives that you've chosen should work well in your MacBook Pro. "Micron" is also the manufacturer of the Crucial SSD. I'm just a bit skeptical about the first because of the unknown nature of the beast... and I doubt that it has the most recent technology built into the Crucial M500 480GB.
You can buy from Crucial or through OWC - I would just pick the one with the cheaper price but I would definitely get the M500 series over the somewhat 'older' (based upon m4 technology, I'm betting) Micron drive.
Good luck... call back should you have any questions.
Clinton

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