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#11
I have been backing up to external drives for a long time and I have purchased 3 Western Digital Drives including one that had a 1 TB capacity as well as a 1.5 TB Seagate Drive and they all failed within a short period of time. The longest lasting was the $180 1TB WD at 18 months and the record for the shortest amount of time before complete failure was the $150 1.5 TB Seagate.
By the time the 1TB WD Firewire Drive which was the fastest of the bunch @ 38 MBps read time went out I had spent almost $500 on external drives with slow transfer speeds and frequent failures and so I decided to spend slightly more than one of these failed drives cost on the 2TB LaCie eSATA Raid 0 drive. Some owners of the 2TB LaCie say that they have used their Lacie Drives for 4 years with no issues. I have yet to know how long my 2TB LaCie Drive will last, but one thing I know for sure and that it has transfer speeds that are 6X as fast as the USB Drives that I had before they broke down.
~Maxx~
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