What thunderbolt external drive - Lacie 1TB rugged or Buffalow ministration 1TB.

I want to replace my NAS as Time Machine back up for my 2011 MBA - it was unreliable and as traveling more too bulky. As my MBA only has USB 2 would like to use thunderbolt. Both of the main suppliers have issues - Lacie over heating and apparent failure, Buffalow poor support and almost no real info (e.g. partition / re format) on site? Any suggestions - has Lacie cured the overheating?

Hi,
The drive is USB 2 & 3 only. It spins up and does not make sounds like its faulty. The output is:
sudo diskutil list
Password:
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *256.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            255.2 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
unknowne4ce8f0eb41c:~
As you can see it is not recognised by Lion

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