Nice External Hard Drive to cop?

My 1 tb seagate just fried after 18 months  . Never again. Western Digital maybe?

I was also bad, the more storage I had the less I backed up.

I've seen more WD's gone south than Seagate.

Just saying.

Hence the "?". Thanks for the heads up.

 HP Simple Save is nice, you can set the back-up schedule for it. Think the one I bought came from Costco and was a 1T.

Iomegas are quite good and are competitive on price.  I've had a 2tb for about a year now and it has been reliable plus excellent performance-wise.

I have a Western Digital 1TB and got it for 79 plus tax. Been using it now about six months without a problem. Seagate is also a good one. Don't know about IOmega though.

I've been using Western Digital My Books since they came out and have had great luck with them. I have yet to have one go out on me.

Best Buy has 1TB My Books on sale until 2/26 for $79.95. PC and Mac versions are the same price.

This is a little more than your stated budget but it's a great drive.  And the price is unbeatable.  It's 2TB for 86 bucks!

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Western+Digital+-+WD+Elements+2TB+External+USB+2.0+Hard+Drive/9693904.p?id=1218150607338&skuId=9693904

I have the 2TB seagate go flex desk series, it woks well.

But can it make pizza?

I wish, dern thing stuck in stir fry mode, cant read the manual, is all in zubish..

If price is your main priority here is a great sale at Staples:

http://www.staples.com/product_868144

The sale last until 02/26/11/. I am not familiar with Iomega products, maybe someone else can expound. Good luck!

"I am not familiar with Iomega products, maybe someone else can expound"

Ah...the old Zip drive.....when 100meg was BIIIIIIG ...;)

Well they've progressed considerably since then.  My faithful 2tb drive has been ever reliable and a god-send for backups and data storage, whereas I had issues with a couple of WD 1tb's becoming unreadable after a period of time. In fact, I just took delivery today for another for my sister, who recently learned the hard way about regular backing up

I had to do a disk repair and data recovery twice with my WD drives in CMD prompt because they suddenly became unreadable for no apparent reason.  However, I still have both those drives and both are working well since the disk repairs... I just don't use then for vital data or backups anymore.

I personally have never had any problems with seagate I have found them to be reliable but there are other good ones out there such as WD externals. I use this expansion drive just because it comes in up to 1.5 TB and it is very small. You don't even notice it on your desk. http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/expansion/expansion_portable/ The 1.5 is expensive but I bought mine on sale for half price at staples a few months back.

Strong aroma of bacon yet again.

bluesky2012 has only 2 types of input....2 threads both with links to products....and all other comments are totally inane intended to validate an existence.

He's subtle...but I wasn't born yesterday.