Thanks for the replies gents!
I have been using Lacie HD's for the last 3 years and thus far have had zero problems with them. At the moment my various files are split between the internal HD and 3 other smaller external HD's and after thinking that a 250GB drive would take care of my needs for the next few years
it would appear to be woefully inadequate....
The dressing of one manufacturers' HD with the clothing of another is in my view cheating the customer, especially if the drive within is of a kind that suffers from a bad reputation and storage wasn't exactly cheap until the last year of so was it ?
My needs are fairly simple, no streaming planned for the moment, but you never know....
Basically photos, films, documents, text files etc with enough space to get them all in order and accessible. The amount of safety is a moot point, i'd be pretty upset if certain things were 'lost' due to disk failure, but would prefer if things weren't too complicated. I belong to the Mac tribe so that perhaps limits my choices. I have been thus far blessed with my computing purchases and have had no problems (touch virtual wood)
