Replacing hard drive in Compaq nx6325

My hard drive is failing. I have cloned the bad drive and need to find a replacement. Just went on to drivesolutions.com and found some good deals on drives and a way to transfer the cloned image. Is this a good route to go? I read the hard drive Faq so I will avoid Seagate and 7200rpm drives.
Thanks for your time and any other advice you can give.
Doug
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The prices there look pretty decent. As for transferring the cloned image, what software did you use to clone? Most imaging software has a way to restore the image to a new hdd.
I use Macrium. It creates an Image of the hdd to CD/DVD or external USB hdd. It also lets you create a bootable cd to boot from & restore the image to a new hdd.
Macrium Reflect HERE
Create an Image   Restore an Image
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