What is the exact type of internal hard drive I buy?

Hi all, I want to upgrade my 160GB drive, can someone advise me on what exactly it is I have to buy. And also th ebest name brands. I have macbook 13". I know western digital are pretty good, any other ideas?
Tracy

Any 2.5" notebook SATA drive up to 320 GBs will work. The Samsung 500 GB drive will also work as it's the only one that is 9.5 mm high and will fit in a MacBook.
Notebook drives are available from many different manufacturers: Seagate, Toshiba, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Western Digital to name a few. You can find benchmarks, comparisons, and reviews at Bare Feats and Storage Review.

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