I'd like to upgrade my MacBook Pro's RAM and hard drive. What brands are reliable? I do heavy web development/web design and run my software on a MacBook Pro (Mid 2009) 2.8ghz model. I use Adobe products, run virtual machines in Parallels, have multiple browsers open, text editors and sometimes IDE's. That's how I typically use my machine.

I'd like to upgrade my RAM and possibly get a larger capacity hard drive, but I'm not sure what brands to buy.

From what I've read so far, it looks like Kingston HyperX KHX1600C9S3P1K2/8G is what I need. As for a hard drive I'm after something reliable. No nasty surprises a year from now.

I would really appreciate some advice as this is something I've delayed doing since I purchased my MacBook Pro.
I did the same to one of my old macs and opted for Crucial Memory and a Western Digital hard drive. Their still going strong and I've had absolutely no problems (and the WD drive is really fast)