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Originally Posted by leon
I have removed the drive and it says on the front label.
See Below 
Leon  |
That is a SATA drive as mentioned, so very easy to replace and cheap to do so.
All you really have to do is buy the new drive and pop the cables back in.
I do a lot of support and have had Seagate, WD ,Samsung drives all die within the first year, and others from the same companies are still going strong 10 years later. I've never had a dead hitachi drive, but I'm sure others have.
Buy whichever brand suits your budget, but backup regularly. I use disc imaging software to backup to another drive so if trouble strikes, you just swap the drives and are up and running gain with no reinstalling/restoring etc. to worry about.
pccasegear have reasonable prices and ship f-a-s-t, any of the drives on this page will suit (that are 2TB or less):
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?..._344&vk_sort=1
or if you have one close by, then MSY do good pricing if you can pickup
http://www.msy.com.au/Parts/PARTS.pdf
look under '3.5" Internal SATA hard drives' on page 1, again, anything 2TB or smaller will suit.