Firewire drive reviews/resources? how to avoid another failed drive??

i have been scavenging online for quite a while and was wondering if anyone could point me to some good resources in purchasing a new firewire drive. mainly looking for resources discussing which brands/models notoriously have problems (eg, LaCie i will never purchase again). i am looking for 200-300Gb, mainly for video editing and backup. thanks-- L
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Not to add to LaCie's bad reputation here lately. But I would say it's takes a while to get customer service from them. They do not have an 800# and they are hard to contact when a problem occurs.(waiting on an e-mail response for a month is something else too.) It took close to about 4 different times before I finally got a whole new external firewire DVD burner back from them. I had to ship it out to Oregon 3 different times because the firewire connection wouldn't work.At one time it worked. You would think after the 2nd time they would have sent me a brand new one. I just received a brand new one before my year warranty was up.
I will never buy another LaCie brand again despite their good reviews in the MacMall magazine and other Mac info. It took about 7 months before my problem was resolved. To me that's too long.
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