Need a new HDD and suggestions

I'm looking to buy a 7,200RPM 3.5" internal Hard Drive for my desktop; I need 1Tb. I'm doing media and video encoding so it has to be fast and reliable. I'm stuck between a Spinpoint and a Barracuda. I've seen mixed reviews on which is the fastest seek/ throughput so can anyone give me some advice on which to get? Of course stability is the most important factor, nothing worse than having a drive fail at the wrong moment.

Thanks for any suggestions

Personally if you must have a 1gig drive I'd get the WD black edition 1TB drive..

if you want a raid array the new seagate 7200.12 are really nice but only 500g right now.
I run both. I have 3 of the 7200.12's in a 1.5tb array its about 350MB/sec average performance

the WD is a single storage drive its about 100MB/Sec

not that its relevant

the WD drive uses 3 333GB platters..
the Seagate uses 1 500GB platter


both are great drives.