What is the stock 500GB, 7200 RPM HD in the Macbook Pro?

I want to upgrade my hard drive. Does anyone know what comes with a Macbook Pro, if you order it with a 500GB, 7200RPM HD?  I've read reviews for some Seagates and Western Digitals but they both seem to have some issues with Mac OS.

MartinJay271 wrote:
I've read reviews for some Seagates and Western Digitals but they both seem to have some issues with Mac OS.
It's likely the hybrid drives of Seagate that get the most reports of issues and not working with OS X, it's a new technology.
Western Digital and Seagate are the two monsters of the hard drive world. Seagate goggled up the crappy Maxor. Western Digital gobbled up Hitachi. Toshiba is by itself still.
In my opinion Hitachi enterprise drives are the finest quality, the run of the mill WD and Segates in my experience have more issues. One Seagate failed on me once.
You can still buy Hitatchi drives, as their factories are still the same, just owned by WD.
My Toshiiba I've got now stock in my Early 2011 seems to be running somewhat well, I've had to zero the free space to create a second partiton. The 10.6.8 update messed up the drive, but that could have been the update.
However Toshiba makes for some crappy computers though, if that's any indication.
Whatever and regardless you should maintain two hardware backups of your data off the machine at all times, as anything can fail at any time.
If you want to upgrade your drive to 7,200 RPM you can do it yourself and save a fortune, Apple is a burn on RAM and drive upgrades.
http://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos/

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