What's a reliable 1TB external hard drive?

[EGGO]

I've heard, from engadget, about Lacie's new drive: http://www.engadget.com/2009/0...-for-anything-storage/

If I can get one at that price or cheaper, I'll spring for one since all of my work is here on the computer. But since I haven't really looked at hard drives since 2004, I wanted to have some opinions or recommendations.

Going just by recommendations, I'm looking at this from Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16822136321 which seems even cheaper than Lacie.

I just have to reformat it to make it Mac compatible, but I'll need to use either USB or FireWire 800 connections.

 

[AznSensation]

samsung f1

 

[Paperlantern]

We use the WD MyBooks here at the office. We are in a litigation situation and are not allowed to delete ANYTHING, we probably have well over 100 of these drives, no failures. Plus, they have firewire so they can be daisychained, or used through USB. Versitile, fast, reliable. no complaints.

 

[EGGO]

Really? I was torn between the My Book or the Element. I ordered the Element thinking that both doesn't use 1394b.

I ordered from Newegg and got a 2 year extended warranty because I heard that TB HDs can fail a little easier than most.

 

[0roo0roo]

no such thing.
end users don't buy enough drives to get anything near scientific data on failure rates. unless a drive is known for especially high failure rates its all about the same. and its the same ol russian roulette, and some folks get bit by one manufacturer and other by another, and of course so they claim xyz is a bad company or drive line... its just nonsense mostly. basically just get a drive with a decent warrantee and don't expect it to last, and you'll be fine. always backup, theres no such thing as a reliable drive, theres only being lucky that you didn't loose all your data.