Urgent, my HDD is dying! : Will a Lenovo MT-M 5485 -AB6 take only a SATA III HDD?

My current HDD is a WD5000AAKS and I've been told it is not long for this world. I need to replace it, but do I need to buy the exact same model? The HDD has 500GB capacity, what is the largest capacity storage HDD the machine can handle if the replacement HDD is SATA III compatable? Does the replacement HDD have to be SATA III compatable?
Thank you in advance, with my HDD possibly sick, I'm in a race against time! 

To me it sounds like the HDD is good, but the boot files on it are corrupted.   The WD Extended Test does a surface scan.    The WD Blue drives that Lenovo used are as reliable as any HDD made.  
http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Most-Rel​iable-Hardware-of-2013-528/#HardDrive
Use Rescue and Recovery to restore the system, you'll then need to update Windows and any apps & user data since that backup was made.   Or reload the OS from scratch, format the drive partition when you do (don't delete the partitions.)    When you have the OS back, but before you do anything else, as a double-check, run Chkdsk surface scan per the above link, watch to see if any sectors were bad and "spared".    If none, then the data was corrupt, no HDD problem.     Could it have been a virus that corrputed your boot files?    What Security program are you using?  

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