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Everyone I know of who had a WD passport has had issues. I would recommend Lacie, or Seagate.



I'm not that keen on Lacie units - they don't make their own drives and from what I can find out, it's a bit of the luck of the draw as to what brand drive goes into the enclosure. OTOH Lacie enclosures usually look pretty good... Seagate have been my supplier of choice for HDD's for many, many years. The higher spec WD's are good, and Hitachi drives seem have recovered from the doldrums that IBM HDDs had decended to before Hitachi acquired them. I do not like Fujitsu's at all, and Toshiba's seem to be a little unpredictable.

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Another direction you might want to look at is the new Solid State Hard Drives. These don't use a platter, they are much faster than even the fast USB 2 drives, they don't get hot, and from what I've been reading, they are very safe for your data, although I do recall Mac posting that he had heard about some drives failing.
The bad side of this is the Price! These drives are VERY expensive ($2-600) for a 160 or 250GB drive.



Another bad side is limited write cycles - while they are getting better and better, and with SSD aware OS like Win7 things can improve even more - they do not have a write cycle life time that comes even close to a conventional HDD. But they are FAST

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