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Advice on reliable 1T ext hard drive for backup

I have 3 LaCie's which are running very well. I've had a total of 6 WD mybooks die on me or my parents. Sure western digital replaced them, but I can't be having drives fail on me. My oldest LaCie is over 3 years old and its on 14+ hrs a day everyday, as my first time machine backup.

Granted, I will probably be getting some G-Tech's soon as I need to expand my capacity and would like to give them a shot, as I hear nothing but good things.

I simply don't reccommend WD's. Another film student friend of mine just had a 2 western digitals crash after 10 months of owning them. They were his only copies of his thesis and well, big lesson learned, no matter what drive solution you have, have backups of the backups and have some drives in a different location. Never know.
 
i don't understand why or how companies can say there hdd works on a mac or works on vista.

i mean if you format it, it can work on everything. i mean "oooooo they saved me 10 minutes of something im going to do anyways"
 
Cave Man said:
Actually, there are some controllers that do not work with Macs by FW. I've not run into this with USB2, but I have with FW.
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There have been many complaints that the Seagate FreeAgent Desk (non-Mac) won't work well on a Mac even after formatting and using USB2; Seagate only lists windows as a compatible OS. I don't know the reason, but it seems to get the most complaints of any recetn external.
 
murphoia said:
I would recommend the Western Digital: MyBook. I am currently using it, and use it for backups. It's 1TB, and I love it. Still have around 200 GB's left. I think I got it for like $190 at Costco. Not 100% sure of that, and it's Canadian dollars.
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I too have the 1 TB Western Digital My Book, and I got it for $99 on sale at Best Buy. So far so good.
 
danny_w said:
There have been many complaints that the Seagate FreeAgent Desk (non-Mac) won't work well on a Mac even after formatting and using USB2; Seagate only lists windows as a compatible OS. I don't know the reason, but it seems to get the most complaints of any recetn external.
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Heh. Well I am buying it at a mac store (new egg only $20 cheaper for the same model) and I will make sure I get the mac version. Thanks.

Oh and I'm getting the version with USB and 400/800FW.
 
Whatever you do, don't be tempted by the cheap 1tb Toshiba drives that are around at the moment. Mine buzzed loudly (despite being described as 'near silent' on the box) and lost data for about six months, then died.

I bought mine from eBuyer.co.uk - and if you look at the customer comments and reviews you will find a whole load of others with similar experiences.

I bought a USB Verbatim that's been quite reliable; but the one I've found to be rock solid is the Maxtor OneTouch Plus Firewire drive (although I couldn't quite stretch to a 1tb model and had to be content with the 750gb one instead).
 
That's why I suggest researching and checking customer revews before buying anything with a substantial price tag.

Just saying. ;)
 
ecstasy said:
That's why I suggest researching and checking customer revews before buying anything with a substantial price tag.

Just saying. ;)
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The interesting thing about hard drives is that if you go to amazon (where the numbers are large), apple's site and new egg and read the hard drive reviews you discover that at least of the people who leave feedback most all hard drives have 10-30% of people unsatisfied with a large number of those people having drives that don't work. Of course there is selection bias i.e. satisfied customers are less likely to post.
 
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