[HeyCori]

Gotta buy a new external hard drive, preferably around 1-2 TBs. Any recommendations? I usually buy Western Digital but there's a handful of Seagates that look nice. Or are they both crap and it's all a shot in the dark?

[Laura Knotek]

Are there any specific Seagates that you're looking at?

[bradbamford]

The passports are nice and thin and don't require external power. The newer ones are USB 3.0

[gedzum]

Are you looking for something portable or is this for desktop? I have the WD passport and it's light and compact as well as quiet and pretty fast since I'm running it over USB 2.0, where it supports USB 3.0.

If it's for desktop, I like the look of the Seagate Backup Plus. I think that's the one with the dock and you can swap out the drives if you need more storage. Kind of like a VHS.

[annamircle]

WD HDD are one the most popular brand, for me i prefer High Density HDD, i have been using HD HDD for about 3 years now when I left WD HDD. Its up to you to choose, we are just providing you options. Good luck. - Integrity Spas

[palandri]

You'll find the best price at NewEgg External Hard Drives - Newegg.com

[Amal Francis]

I have a samsung s2 porable 1TB and i am happy with it... I guess smasung HDDs are nice from my experience... Or else my advice would be to go with giants like WD or segate...

[xandros9]

I got a 500 GB USB 3.0 Seagate portable hard drive and it just died after a couple months. However, after RMA'ing it, my replacement unit is still going strong.

I'd say go for WD, but getting hard drives could still be a gamble. If you're going to use it as backup, be sure to backup the backup as I've learned.

[NTUser]

Personally, I prefer WD to Seagate. But unfortunately there aren't any really good hard drive OEMs.

I have one of these (or something very similar, not quite sure) in my desktop build, it's worked well so far: Western Digital WD Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - Newegg.com