Please help me choose an internal drive for black macbook

hi
i own a black macbook.
my current drive is FUJITSU MHY2250BH which came with the macbook.
I need a biggeer drive, the biggest possible, and I would like 7200rpm as i do alot of audio intensive work etc.
i found a 500gb fujitsu, but the dimensions are slightly diff to my current drive.
should i make sure the dimensions are exactly the same? eg to the millimetre??
i just want to know about what specs to watch out for.
i live in uk, so dont really want to buy from a usa retailer.
can anyone help?
thankyou
also, would i be able to use my current drive as an external drive? how could i plug it into macbook? an enclousre? or just a wire?
i also have a bootcamp partition currently.
would the new drive be a simple change over? ie. no need to reinstall any app or boot camp from scratch again? i think i read that we can just use a time machine back up to put my current macbook drive state onto the new drive.....right?

As of October 1, 2009 Toshiba is now handling Fujitsu Branded Drive support.
Check what they've got available in the way of notebook/laptop internal hard drives. I'm sure their 500GB 7200rpm internal HD will fit
SATA 3.0Gb/s (SATA-2)
Form Factor 2.5"
minimum cache of 8MB
http://sdd.toshiba.com/main.aspx?Path=StorageSolutions/PCNotebookHardDrives/MKxx 56GSYSeries
look at the MK5056GSY - obtained from a quick Google: http://www.itpro.co.uk/615283/toshiba-expands-2-5in-hdd-range-for-high-end-lapto ps
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