I want to save my entire movie library should i use an external drive?

I have over 700 movies that i want to save on a drive, should I use an external drive to use with my macbook pro?

Pretty much any external HDD would work. LaCie and WD are good manufacturers, though my Hitachi 1TB SimpleDrive has also been a good drive.

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