Looking for a nice external HD

hello all.
i've been looking for a nice external HD and found some good choices:
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Western Digital WDG1SU5000 500GB MyBook Premium ES Edition
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Western Digital 160GB 2.5-inch Passport USB Portable Hard Drive
Iomega 120 GB Portable USB/FireWire Hard Drive
so what do you guys think of these ones?

I recently purchased two new hard drives and I'm not crazy about either one. The WD My Book (Premium, 320 GB) runs fine but it makes a very annoying throbbing sound. Also, it doesn't power down by itself when I shut off my Mac, so I have to manually press the button on the front of the drive to shut it off.
The other new drive is better - it's a Maxtor One Touch 4 Plus (500 GB). It's quiet, runs cool and powers down. Unfortunately, you have to unplug it every time you shut off the computer because it's powered sort of like a portable drive and it will power up on its own if it's getting power, even when the computer is off. It took me days to figure out how to get the Mac to recognize the drive every time I turn on my computer - and then I read Seagate's/Maxtor's hidden instructions.
Support from both WD and Seagate/Maxtor is sporadic - they sometimes respond to emails and sometimes don't.
The Maxtor drive is new so I don't know how durable it is. I have a Maxtor One Touch II that's been working for more than two years. The WD drive has a lousy track record according to reports I've read, but it came with a two year warranty (European warranty - US warranty is, I think, one year). The Maxtor comes with a five-year limited warranty.
Both drives come with USB and FW ports and both run much better on FW. They're both bootable with Tiger or Leopard.
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