Is it possible to replace internal drive of a WD My Passport?

I need to buy a new HDD drive with more capacity for my laptop and want to keep my current HDD as backup. Is it a good idea to buy an external My Passport model, open it and replace its internal HDD with the one in my laptop? I know that I will void the guarantee.

Does a Blue internal HDD have more performance than the HDD inside My Passport? Can I put another HDD with ANOTHER BRAND in a WD My Passport shell?

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WD My Passports typically have the USB interface built into the drive itself.

You can't use the drive as a sata drive, nor can you yank out the drive and use the enclosure with another drive.

Quite simply, what you want won't work.

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