Is it possible to have a bigger hard drive (say 1 Tb) in the MacBook pro?

What's the biggest disk (that will work ok and won't trash my battery life etc.) that can be put into a macBook pro? 1 Tb possible?
Mike

1 Tb.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/2.5-Notebook/

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2: You want to inflict as little change to the SSD as possible to make it last longer as they can wear out with a lot of use, thus a boot/app drive is ideal for this.
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