Is External USB Hard Drive good enough ?

[RyanKhoo]

I notice that to upgrade the HDD from Apple is expensiva & many has posted picture on how they use a putty knife & replace them with a better & bigger capacity HDD.

I was wondering, for those not comfortable opening up the Mac Mini, what is the difference if we just buy a USB external HDD ? Wouldn't it be the same ?

Thanks

 

[old-wiz]

A usb external HDD will be much slower than an internal HDD. I think a better idea is firewire external HDD.