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There's a lot of arty types on here, and I assume you need loads of data storage, so I'll ask here :) Can't seem to find much good info online... Amazon reviews are usually useless for these.
What external hard drives are good? Which are crap?
Must be firewire 400 (for my macbook, so no 800) so I can use Superduper and boot from it in case my hdd dies. My macbook is 80gb, so at least 160gb for time machine and superduper, then a bit more for extra storage - ca. 200gb.
Those Western Digital My Books look fairly good, but seem unreliable. My sister had one that suddenly died, and she says her friend had one that died too.
LaCie look good - don't know much about reliability.
Other things that are preferable: not too big, and not noisy. I hate fans. In fact I'd probably spend a bit more if it was near silent.
Ta :)