I bought my Maxtor 180GB external about two years ago. All of my friends had been having issues with their externals crashing on them, but after two years of solid use mine is still going strong.

*knocks on wood*

I have always gone with Western Digital and have internal drives from 5 years ago that I have converted into external drives that are still working very well. I can't complain with the product itself, but at the same time I know Seagate is also great. I think it just depends on who has the better deal and who you trust.

I have always gotten a great product with WD other than an OEM drive from newegg.com that was DOA.

oh yeah glyph and g-tech are also great but nearly double than the standard brands




G-SATA 1000GB
$499.00



G-SPEEDeS-R4TB
$2,999.00



G-DRIVE Q 1TB
$549.00

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Originally posted by Dieselboy_1206 I have always gone with Western Digital and have internal drives from 5 years ago that I have converted into external drives that are still working very well. I can't complain with the product itself, but at the same time I know Seagate is also great. I think it just depends on who has the better deal and who you trust. I have always gotten a great product with WD other than an OEM drive from newegg.com that was DOA.

ive done the same, my maxtor drive failed 2 weeks in to its life, been running fine since but im still cautious. I converted my old WD's into externals as well. Just got a raptor 150 for my current system and a 500GB RE2 and so far so good + there's a 5 year mfr warranty on he 500GB

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I've had 2 western digital's die on me, so i stay away from them. Seagate on the other hand are awesome and I've also had no problems with freecom external drives. So, if i were buying a 1TB external atm, i'd personally buy a freecom.

I curently have:

1TB + 750GB + 300GB + 300GB + 300GB (internal, all seagate)
500GB + 500GB (external, both freecom)

all working flawlessly

i have a 500gb acomdata external drive which worked great for a few monthes and then something went wrong. it wont connect to my pc, my pc wont reognize that its plug in, UGHHHHHH. so i gotta take it in to get looked at, i think its just a lose wire or something, everything on the drive should still be their. so u may wanna stay away from them.

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Lacie was recently purchased by a Chinese company and is now going down in quality a lot. The G Drives are very nice. Ultimately all the top tear companies use seagate drives though so thats what you should be buying.

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