External Hard Drives

[athene]

Ok Internets, I have a question for you.

For my capstone, I need to buy an external hard drive for my boss. The hard drive is going to be holding lots of high quality scanned images and possibly some video and audio files.

I'm thinking at least a 750GB if not at 1TB drive. USB connection or Firewire A connection a must (both would be better).

So, oh internets, what hard drive should I buy? Or at least what company should I go with/should avoid?

Thanks!

Comments

[stagemonkey.livejournal.com]

I swear by Seagate and Samsung for internal drives, after going through a looong series of Maxtor and Western Digital drives. I don't have too much experience with external drives though. As drackyyn mentioned, Seagate bought out Maxtor, but I haven't seen any decline in the Seagate products as a result (hopefully, Maxtor has gotten better, but I still won't touch them).

If you happen to have an old piece-of-crap PC hanging around, you might try building a FreeNAS box out of it (which is what I use for my storage these days) but you lose portability that way.