Macbook Hard Drive

Hi,

I currently have an old Macbook (Intel Core Duo, 2GHz) running Leopard on it's stock 80GB hard drive,http://www.sdd.toshiba.com/main.as [...] 32GSXPage].

Now, I want to upgrade to a higher capacity hard drive (any 160GB+ would be fine)

However, I'm not sure if I should go with 5400rpm or 7200rpm (or even 8mb or 16mb cache). I know the 7200rpm one would definately load things up faster, but I'm worried about the heat that it would create.

Which hard drive do you recommand? (I live in Canada, so I prefer buying from Canada Computers or Tiger Direct)

I was thinking if 5400rpm is fine, http://www.canadacomputers.com/ind [...] HD.517.47]

Please Recommand me some good compatible hard drives (basically any S-ATA2 2.5" Hard Drives are fine right?)


*Oh and also, I have a Leopard installed on this computer. Since I've lost the original install CD, is there any way I can copy EVERYthing on the HD i have right now onto the NEW hard drive(incl. the OS X)*

Thanks.

BTW, this is the hard drive model I used:

Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD3200BEVT 320GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Notebook Hard Drive - OEM $79.99 CAD

Yes, I believe you can use time machine. I didn't because my wife didn't have a time machine backup on an external drive.

7200rpm would really help the access time. I was going to get a 7200rpm drive but at the time they were considerably more expensive than the 5400 drives.

The 320GB upgrade made the macbook a bit faster because it contains more dense platters (original was a 120GB drive), but I also upgraded the RAM to 4GB at the same time so that may also be why it seemed faster.