Which External FW HDD do you use?

Hi there,
Just wondering which brands have good and bad reputations in terms of reliability and customer service.
Thanks for your opinions!
Cheers,
Glenn

OH, I meant to also say WATCH OUT for the Western Digital "MyBook" series. I have a dual interface FW400/USB2 version that goes to sleep after a few mins of inactivity. Very very frustrating. This is an okay drive to do backups, but I hate leaving it attached to the Mac b/c anytime you do anything that accesses a harddrive there is a approx. a 10-second delay while the drive spools up.
I've searched for a way to disable this, even in system preferences and what I've read is that the drive enclosure itself imposes the drive spindown automatically... wow THANKS!
Oddly, the white version of the MyBook drive I saw in the Apple Store seems to not ilicit this behavior. I walked up to an iMac that had been sitting for several minutes untouched and hit spotlight search and immediately the drive was ready. On my MBP all I have to do is work on something else that doesn't hit the hard drives for like 5 mins and I can actually hear the drive spindown here on my desk - infuriating!!!

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