A reliable External HD - such a thing?

I have a LaCie 1TB external HD and at the time I bought it, I though it had the best reviews out there. I was thinking of getting a 2nd one (for added security) and the current reviews seem to say the power source dies around the 1 year mark - eeekkkks!

Is there a good and reliable external HD out there?

Are the G-Tech any better?

A what??? Western Digital!! God the rest are scum, I would have thought every one new that

What *brand* of drive is inside the LaCie enclosure? When I look at LacCie's website LaCie - Desktop External Hard Drives and RAID - USB 2.0, FireWire, FireWire 800 & eSATA I can find little specific detail. A lot of 'name' companies use components from all sorts of suppliers, eg. it might be a Seagate 1 Tb drive inside. Anyway, for what it's worth, my personal preference is for the Hitachi brand.

I've been running a 1TB WD for the last year or so, and I haven't had any issues at all with it. It's also pretty tough considering it made it through a deployment and a couple moves.

All leading brands are pretty reliable - Seagate, Western Digital, Hitachi, Maxtor. Depends on the luck of the draw and all come with a 12 month warranty. They are mass produced items and there will ALWAYS be a few that fail within the warranty period. That is life!

I have always run LaCie drives - not as big as 1TB - but I am currently using six 500GB drives, and they are all very reliable. The only thing I use them for is backing up - but they are backed up to using Time Machine on the Macs and a free software on the PCs, every day, and they have been nothing but reliable.

The only two I ever use for work, and for use in my servers are Western Digital or Seagate, the others arent bad but not as good and Maxtor do not touch with anything, there is a reason they are cheaper then other brands - they are crap avoid where possible.