I want to know on my old iMac hard drives

I want to put another hard drive in my mid 2007 24 "imac since the former one quit a few months ago. I want to know what I can use. I was checking ebay and found a lot but I'm confused. There is caviar blue and black caviar. There are different brands and different model numbers then. Those that came out was a black WD3200AAJS caviar made in 2008. Can I use another brand? Can I go with another? How to cross reference? I'm thinking than those of roughly the same age of the imac because, after all, it is an old computer and I don't want to spend a lot of money. But I want to remedy for children to use to make videos and photography. It will not be a game machine because they use my other reason. Sorry for the flood of questions!

Any 3.5 "SATA HDD will work. Is the drive that you took a year newer than the iMac is obviously already been changed before. Black WD drives are good 7200 TPM, blue seem a bit slow, green disks are low consumption and Red are server or business applications.

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