What is the best Harddrive company to install into my 2008 Macbook, Seagate, Hitachi, Western Digital, Samsung?

The HDD in my 2008 MacBook just failed on me, and the Genius' at the store said I just need to purchase and install a new HDD and they will install Mac OS X for me for free. I was looking around and I found a few HDD but I'm not familar with Mac HDD I dont know if there is a specific company that i NEED to use, or if i can install any HDD fom any company. Obviously i know i need a 2.5" Form Factor HDD with SATA 3.0/Gbps but which company should i purchase....
Seagte
Hitachi
Western Digital
Samsung
All ive found decent sized HDD at very reasonable prices.
Thank you for your responses

If you search through all the Mac forums on the internet you'll find that people say "Never put a (Insert name of company here) hard drive in your MacBook, only put a (Insert name of company here) drive in."
That's because every company makes drives that can fail quickly and drives that can go forever. They all try the best that they can to make a good drive.
Go with the one that has the best warranty for the price.

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