Upgrade Hard Drive on Macbook

Hello I am looking into upgrading my Hard Drive on my new Macbook C2D 2.2Ghz. I was looking on macsales.com and noticed they had a 250Gb hd for around $150. Is this a reputable brand? If not what is a good brand to go with? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

Good afternoon,
Which brand are they selling, you didn't mention that? Normally I recommend Seagate, Fujitsu, and occasionally Western Digital as they are the big brand names in hard drives.
Hope this helps! 
David

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--- OpenGL Info ---
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Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M OpenGL Engine
OpenGL Version: 2.1 NVIDIA-8.0.61
GLSL Version: 1.20
Monitors: 1
Monitor 0 properties -
   Size: (0, 0, 1440, 900)
   Max texture size: 8192
   Supports non-power of two: 1
   Shaders 444: 1
   Shaders 422: 1
   Shaders 420: 1
--- GPU Computation Info ---
Found 2 devices supporting GPU computation.
CUDA Device 0 -
Caught structured exception!Full test failed, trying 444 shaders only
--- OpenGL Info ---
2012-12-15 16:03:27.522 GPUSniffer[1310:707] invalid drawable
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M OpenGL Engine
OpenGL Version: 2.1 NVIDIA-8.0.61
GLSL Version: 1.20
Monitors: 1
Monitor 0 properties -
   Size: (0, 0, 1440, 900)
   Max texture size: 8192
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   Shaders 444: 1
   Shaders 422: 0
   Shaders 420: 0
--- GPU Computation Info ---
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CUDA Device 0 -
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