Just spent the afternoon looking at new Ext. HDDs, so a timely post for me!

@BluEcho:
I'm about to replace my second set of external drives.  I have kept all my 3D stuff on them - program files as well as Runtimes - they are generally on 24/7, for about 6 years now, and none have ever failed, I've just outgrown them. 

Although no problems in the years I've been using them, I am still chicken (and lazy) enough that  I do buy them two at a time -- and use the second drive primarily as a backup (although not as a duplicate). 

My first pair were Maxtor 120GB, and the second pair were WesternDigital 250GB.   Now Looking at either the Seagate or Maxtor 1.5GB drives, both only about $150 bucks -- until I saw Acadia's post that is.   :-(

@ Acadia:
Which external drive did you chose & have all the problems with?

Anyone else having problems using the newer, larger drives with older computers?

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and for the historical trivia fans:
My first ext. hard drive was for Apple's 'LISA' - it was a huge loud box with only 5Mb - for $5K IIRC.