1TB and 2TB portable external hard drives

I have an iMac and a MacBook Air, both up to date in terms of operating system (Mavericks) and I need recommendations for portable external hard drives - one 1TB and one 2TB.
I'm reluctant to use Western Digital because of the conflicts with WD SmartWare which comes with the hard drives.
Looking for reliability. They will be used for Time Machine backups and I may pick up one more of each for SuperDuper clone backups as well.
Thanks for any recommendations and buying advice.

Funny how we all have different experiences with different drives.
Like Thrifty One, I have had very good luck with a number of bare 3.5" WD drives, but would never own another one of there external enclosures. Currently I have a WD in my MiniStack, three in old Maxtor Firewire enclosures, three others that I use on a USB to SATA adapter and one that I put into my early Intel iMac several years ago.
As for portable and 2.5" drives, I have one one older WD Passport, one Seagate GoFlex, the Toshiba from my Mini is in a Sabrent enclosure, plus a Samsung and a Hitachi that I also use on the USB to SATA adapter.
Over the years I have only had one Seagate and one Maxtor that completely fail, plus one other unusable Seagate because it is really loud.

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