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Well the problem was, if you read earlier posts there, the drives were dying by the bunch out in the field. On their forum, people complained about the deaths and Seagate started erase people's posts. Finally, they admitted that something was wrong and posted a firmware fix and recommended everyone to upgrade to it. Then the drive were being bricked after the firmware. Just saying, even if you had the drives for months, the problem may surface and you don't want to upgrade to the new firmware until they can guarantee that it will work, otherwise, say good by to your data.

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Seize the day and SING!!!

I've been a big fan of Hitatchi and Maxtor discs... guess I've always bought what the best deals I could. Never had THAT many where it was enough where I would avoid one brand. Usually, for the speed and storage and price, that's what I went with.

I never bought anything less than a "name" brand.

All external drives suck at one time or another. As a old school KJ turning digital I'm following my technoid philosophy of always run mirror drives. Some of the externals run in RAID 0, 1, 5 etc. so basically it's always running things twice... reguardless if the spinning drives hit the platter when you trip on a cord and the drive falls on hardwood... things are never good. Shock mounting = good. I'm using flash drives / SSD (Solid State Drives) more money, yes but no moving parts and most are twice as fast as hard drives. If a deal looks too good to be true however... it is with those kinda drives but with chip prices falling out of the sky these quite, efficient and long lasting lightning fast buggers could outlast your computer (s).

I'm ripping my g's library off my WD book onto my flash drives as I'm writing this. Always keep a backup of everything.... always. All electronics fail at some point so be prepared.

I bought a 16gb drive for $180 2 years ago or less it was hot stuff... now for the same price I can get double the space or more

I bought the WD 1tb, haven't transferred info yet, but it seems that this will hold anything that I can throw at it. Thanks for ALL the great suggestions, hope I can help some of you in the future.