[rktman]

Have a Seagate with HUGE storage capability. No issues. Easily holds everything on my computers.

[LostInBayport]

I have been using a WD My Book as a storage drive for many years. It has nowhere near the capacity you are looking for (80GB), but it gets a lot of use and has been reliable.

[wally_bert]

WD drives have usually held up well for me either internal or external. No other brand has stood up as well for me. It is the brand I recommend to buy for replacement and I haven’t been chewed for it yet.

[Vendome]

I have both and couldn’t care less.

I prefer the interface for WD software, while others prefer Seagate.

Everyone’s mileage differs.

I suppose you have to bench them across the network, if that is how you using them.

If you are using them at the server level I becomes and either or question.

BTW, had dinner at a restaurant in Encino called Boca, last month.

It’s a Kosher place and the food was excellent. The next day I had lunch at Aroma’s on Sunset, another Jewish deli and the food was just terrific.

I hate the skinny little actor wannabe waiters though. Cept the chicks.

LOL

[MachIV]

I just bought a Seagate last month for $89 with 1 Terabyte storage(100gig?). It took about 1 hour to backup everything “backupable” as it determined with the 1 touch command. Seems to work fine for me.

[Gaffer]

I think the Western SeaMonkey crayon drives are the most reliable.

[grobdriver]

Some say Seagate sucks and crash easily while the other group say the same thing about WD

Just make sure you have a back up.
I've had one of each brand and they both crashed with data loss.

I got new Seagates and run them in a raid array. I'm a slow learner.

[TomServo]

Western Digital.

[Errant]

Have the WD My Book 3TB. Recently purchased for less than $200.

So far, I'm very pleased with it.

Private and public areas, pretty good security features, sleeps, accessible from offsite via the internet. I have mine set up as an NFS, connected via cable to the wifi router. No issues with any devices on the network locating or accessing the public areas.

Also, it has proprietary backup capabilities that I haven't used yet.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I have a WD My Passport. I plugged it in. Now what do I do with it? No instructions came with it. It now sets on my shelf with other computer equipment which came without instructions.

Even bringing up the web page did not tell me what to do with it!

[stuartcr]

I’ve got one of each, no probs with either one.

[skeeter]

Back a decade ago we experienced fewer returns will WD's product over Seagate's. And we bought a ton of drives every month.

Dont suppose that info'll do you much good now, though.

[justlurking]

I've had a bad experience with a Western Digital external drive. I've avoided them since then.

I currently have a Seagate USB 3.0 external drive, and it has been great. I don't use the software bundled with the drive: I simply use Windows 7 backup.

This Seagate drive is actually a 2.5 inch laptop drive, and is powered through the USB port. If you want higher capacity 3.5 drive, you'll have to get one that is self-powered.

I recently bought one of these on sale: ORICO 6518SUS3-BK USB3.0&E-SATA SATA HDD Docking Station/Enclosure. Buy any bare SATA drive (retail or OEM) and insert it into the dock. It works with both 3.5 drives and 2.5 drives.

The dock supports USB 2.0, USB 3.0, and eSATA. If you are going to go with a self-powered drive, I suggest eSATA: it's faster than USB 3.0 for random access. For sustained read/write, they appear to be about the same.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I've had both brands and then some. No real difference all else being equal. Buy big.

Then start doing your own offline backups by using Macrium Reflect. It's free and it rocks. Do an image once per week and you'll be protected against virus infections, boot drive crashes and any data loss.

You can even use Macrium to mount an image and randomly retrieve any data in the image. As I said, it rocks!

You can then get rid of Mozy. Too slow. Macrium does an image of your boot drive in about 20 minutes.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

I had mulitple failures during the warranty period of WD. I went with Seagate and have had not problems in over 15 years. I replace each drive when I start to get sector errors but they all outlast the warranty by several years.

[driftdiver]

Had a seagate until one of their disgruntled employees pushed out bad code. Apparently there is software on the drive which allowed it to be upgraded without your knowledge.

Turned it into a brick and lost all my data.

Pretty bad set of controls at that company to allow this to happen.

[PIF]

I think it matters more WHO you buy the drive from than manufacturer. Warranties and such are a good thing. Some vendors will attempt to recover data from faulty drives they sold you for a very small fee or free.

My preference for multi-terrabyte drives:
OWC
http://www.macsales.com/

[Hardraade]

My only drive that crrashed almost immediately was a WD. But I’ve had several kinds. The stuff in my netgear boxes now is Hitachis.

[The Cajun]

To be taken with a grain of salt.
Retired electronic tech and help friends and relatives with their computers.
Have had to replace 2 Seagate Barracuda drives (both 1 TB) and no WD drives.
I prefer WD drives, have added second drives to several computers and no problems yet.
My external drive is WD, no problems in 3 years.
Not a big sample size, so grain of salt statement.

[Fast Moving Angel]

I had a WD My Book that died after about 5-6 years and just replaced it last month with a Toshiba 500G from Walmart ($59). Love it so far - backed up both my desktop and laptop onto the same drive, easy to use.