Replacing imac 24" mid 2007 hard drive

hello everyone
recently my imac 24" mid 2007 320gb 2gb ram mac hard drive completely failed i have tried everything it starts up sometimes then freezes other times it doesnt even recognise the hard drive so i am currently using it through a boot on a external hard drive my question is if i were to replace the hard drive myself (using youtube videos i am quite tech minded so looks fairly easy) would i have to get a certain type of hard drive i know its 3.5" but is there a simple to the size 1tb/2tb and als oi have read the transfer rate may need to be tapered down is that true and if so how would i go about doing it ?
any help will be appreciated thanks very much
craig jenkins

http://img.tomshardware.com/us/2003/05/01/sata_hard_drive_with_a_kick/raptor-3.j pg shows an image of a hard drive with a jumper.   Reading from right to left, the first four prongs are power prongs.  Next you'll see a white plastic item covering two pins (that's known as a jumper).  On some SATA drives, they cover the prongs circled in red on this image:
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b13/CRazY_GAmEr_07/SATA2.jpg
Either style of pinout on SATA drive, if you don't have the jumpers covered by the right plastic item, it will not work backward compatible, or will confuse the computer as to what speed it actually is.  This is why you need to ask Western Digital if any jumper needs to be on the jumper pins of the drive in question to work as the master drive on your computer given your computer's data bandwidth for hard drives.

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