What External Hard Drives Work With Lion?

Have installed Lion in my iMac. Need a new external backup hard drive. Understand some hard drives aren't compatible with Lion. If this is so, can someone recommend an external that is? The G Drives Mobile works with my Macbook Pro with Lion as OS, but I'm concerned about the iMac.
Thank you for any response

I've been using a LaCie d2 Hard Drive Extreme with Triple Interface 250GB since July 2005 (= 6 years) and it still hasn't let me down....yet...
I only use it a couple of times a week, sometimes once or twice a day, to make complete bootable clones of my HD. For the rest of the time it's disconnected.
I use Carbon Copy Cloner to make the clones. Mike Bombich, who owns CCC and has an excellent website, advises not to use Western Digital drives.
As I understand it, this is because WD drives have something in the software that isn't compatible with the Mac OS.
I've never heard of there being any particular problems with any other make of external drive.

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