Macbook HD
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- rafalski0
An external 2.5" drive (like WD Passport) is nothing but a laptop drive in an enclosure. It is just convenient to get an enclosure and the drive separately, because you don't lose your warranty when swapping drives. I don't think they let you open the Passport.
I have a few 2.5" drives, but the setting that works best for me is to put the biggest drive into the laptop and backup things on the remaining ones which sit in their enclosures (ie. one for music, one for photos, work).
It depends. Some people just want to buy a defined product rather than fiddle with it. My friends are happy with their WD passports, you might be too.
Anyway, you don't need to worry about the external drive speed, because USB 2.0 and Firewire 400 13" ports MacBook has are slow bottlenecks anyway. Only get a fast 7200 drive if you mean to put it inside the computer, you're not going to see any difference unless you go for a Firewire 800 enclosure and get a MacBook Pro which has such port.