Need help with new harddrive for ps3

[Spiderbri]

Hey gang,

I just realized I have less than 10gigs of space on my 80gig PS3.

So I need to get a new hard drive next month. My question to those in the know is how do I find out my current PS3's harddrive specs so that I can match them or exceed them in a new hard drive?

I want it to be as fast or faster than what came with it. I'm thinking just going to a 500gig drive. Any recommendations of brands to get that have worked for you? or ones to avoid like the plague?

Thanks a lot. I really don't want to screw this up. And yes I use the backup utility onto an external every few months. So that's not an issue.