Need to add a third 500GB drive to mac Pro

Anything/brand I should be wary of? I originally ordered two of them with the system itself.
Recommendations?
Thanks

"Tested"… no. Used… yes. I find that tests, while a good starting point, often don't give the whole story. The Hitachi drives that I used in a client's MP felt reasonable. They weren't great anywhere but neither were that horrible anywhere, which to me is often just as important. Basically, these aren't going to win any competitions yet they're going to be well off the bottom too. This makes them a good average drive when you don't know what to do.
While they're not for me as I get much better buys for my style of usage, heavy small file read/write which the Maxtor MaXLines excel at (which is why I bought them) rather than sustained large read writes that the Seagates excel at, they are a reasonable choice for a "jack of all trades" type drive and being enterprise class they can be used without issue in a RAID set.
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