What’s the best external hard drive for back-ups?

[dferigmu]

I have a Powerbook G4 and would like to buy an external hard drive for back-up purposes. It seems impossible to choose one because drives made by every company occasionally fail and only then do people write reviews on them. Every time I hear that LaCie, Maxtor and Seagate make the best hard drives, an equal amount of people say they suck and fail on a regular basis.

My question is:

Who makes a good, most consistently reliable hard drive that I can easily do back-ups with?

 

[slackersonly]

I have a Powerbook G4 and would like to buy an external hard drive for back-up purposes. It seems impossible to choose one because drives made by every company fail occasionally and only then do people write reviews on them.

Who makes a good, reliable hard drive that I can easily do back-ups with?

Search the forums for lots on this.

Go with the best your money and/or mac can afford. ie: 16mb buffer, 7200, firewire over usb, etc.

My preference is Seagate in an OWC external case. Check outpost.com for seagate deals. They had a 400gb seagate drive for about $110.

 

[Vasileios]

I have a My Book™ Pro Edition™ as an external HD for my PowerBook... I highly reccomend it!!!

250 GB, Triple Interface - FireWire 800, FireWire 400, and USB 2.0

EMC Retrospect Express — Backup software that includes full system backup and recovery, easy scheduling, and encryption.

Capacity gauge — See at a glance how much space is available on your drive.

3-year warranty


Specs

Rotational Speed 7,200 RPM (nominal)
Buffer Size 8 MB
Average Latency 4.20 ms (nominal)

Seek Times
Read Seek Time 8.9 ms
Track-To-Track Seek Time 2.0 ms (average)

Serial Transfer Rate
FireWire 800
Serial Bus Transfer Rate (1394b) 800 Mbits/s (Max)

FireWire 400
Serial Bus Transfer Rate (1394a) 400 Mbits/s (Max)

USB 2.0
Serial Bus Transfer Rate (USB 2.0) 480 Mbits/s (Max)