1TB External Hard Drive, Who Has One That They're Happy With?

Hi, I'm looking to get a 1tb external hard drive to store video, and was wondering if anyone was super happy with their's? I was looking at the Maxtor One Touch III, Lacie, or WD external hard drives??? Any advice would be awesome. Thanks.
Dan

I have used the Lacie 1TB drive for backup use only, which it works well for.. However, a few people I have met have mentioned that the pre-RAIDed drives like these always have issues and will cause trouble in the future with heavy use..
So what are you using it for? Backup, or heavy daily read/write work, because apparently this is important for those drives.

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