Which harddrive should I Buy?

[This One Time]

I just had my main hard drive fail and i need advice on a new harddrive. It was a:
Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

36 month warranty and it failed in the 40th month oh well.

Any ways i need to purchase a new one fast since all I have is 2 green drives i use for storage. (Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EADS 1TB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive)

Im plannin on upgrading to a i7 build sometime next year.

Current Build

CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor BX80557E6600
ZEROtherm CF900 92mm CPU Cooler

Mother Board
Asus P5B Deluxe LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard

RAM
OCZ Platinum Revision 2 4GB (4 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model OCZ2P800R22GK

Graphics Card
EVGA 01G-P3-1371-AR GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) FPB EE 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Case
APEVIA X-Infinity ATXB6KLW-BK/420 Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Power Supply
Antec NeoPower 550 550W ATX12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready Active PFC Power Supply

Hard Drives
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
2 x Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EADS 1TB SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

 

[processor-pro]

Are you still okay with buying Western Digital, or is Western Digital a no?

 

[This One Time]

Are you still okay with buying Western Digital, or is Western Digital a no?

Western digital is still ok with me. I think this failure was just a fluke. I dont need anything to large the 500gb drive seemed like more than enough for my main drive.

I spent some time today looking into SSD and Velociraptors but they seem expensive for what you get. I looked at their benchmarks and can't seem to find much of a difference between the three but bench marks can be misleading.

Im hoping to keep it under $150.

 

[ScrewySqrl]

$150 will buy an 80 GB SSD that will make an excellent boot drive.
If you want to stick with mechanical, a Seagate Barracuda 500 GB drive is $39.99

 

[JoeAdamsIV]

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB 3.5IN SATA 6GB/S With NCQ
Only $40