Which one is the reliable drive?

I saw 2 external hard drives on close out and was wondering which one is considered more reliable? One is the G-drive desktop and the seagate backup for Mac which looks like the go flex except it has a 800 FireWire. I'm leaning towards the G-drive because of the on off switch and 2 FireWire while the seagate has one FireWire and no switch. From the review I read both have complains on reliability although much more on the G-drive which is sold at apple store and supposedly recommended by their employees. I want to make the right decision and would appreciate anybody on this board who had any experiences with these drives please share them here. Thanks.

Tee Jay wrote:
Den.thed, are you indicating that the Mercury although slightly more expensive than G-drive is the better quality among the three?
No I can not recommend that one is better quality than the other.
I can however say that I prefer having two or more smaller backup drives verses having 1 large backup drive because nobodies hardware is 100% free from failure. 
Likewise it really depends on having a good backup strategy and how important your data is to you. For example if you had only a 2T for Time Machine and it failed then your backups are gone. Plus you can not boot and run from Time Machine if your internal fails. Whereas if you had for example a 500GB or 1T for Time Machine and a 500GB for cloning, you have two backups and can boot and run from the clone if your internal fails.
Have a look at > My backup plan: Dan Frakes | Macworld and then decide if you still want one 2T drive or perhaps if maybe a couple of 500GB drives or a 500GB and a 1T might be the better choice.

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