Best Hard Drive Transfer

I just purchased a new and larger hard drive for my MacBook. I was wondering what the most efficient way to transfer the data would be.
1. USB2.0 from my current set up to the new hard drive and then replace the drives.
or
2. Backup my current drive to my TimeCapsule, replace the old HD with the new one, then move everything back to my new drive via ethernet.

Use Firewire, not USB.
Firewire is "isochronous", basically meaning that you can pump "clocked" data though it in real time. USB works more like TCPIP, with the data chopped up into packets and later reassembled.
Thus, at a minimum, you have latency, that is, the wait for the data to be "put back together". Second, the Firewire protocol allows more direct address to memory (including mass storage) with minimal intervention of the CPU.
When using Firewire, nothing will interfere with it, No collisions, no glitches. Firewire is rock-solid.

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