What's a good 2TB EHD?

[NicoleScraps]

I need a new EHD really bad. We have a Seagate 500g right now but with my photos and hubby's blue prints (from his business) it is full. I want to start shooting in raw but I have no storage for those files. So he told me to research and find a good 2tb drive. He can write it off of his business (since he will be using it too) so I am not too concerned with price.
Anyways, like I said, we have a seagate that has been great so I looked at theirs first. The blackarmor and freeagent have absolutely terrible reviews online.
I am seriously getting overwelmed reading all the reviews.
This is important stuff that needs to go on this drive, so I don't want to buy junk. If the price is right, we might get two and mirror them.
Do you have a drive that you can personally recommend?

[jdepould]

G-Tech drives have pretty good reviews, though they can be pricey.

I've been using a lot of WD MyBooks, and they've been fine.

[sk66]

Price vs performance vs security...for the best of all three I'd buy a CalDigit 4TB in raid 5 configuration (results in about 3+ TB actual storage)..but that's about $1200

Next I might consider the G-tech 2tb G-safe raid drive: $649. It uses 2 TB drives with Hardware Raid1 mirroring. I would consider this a better solution than two separate drives "software mirrored".

I personally use a Lacie D2 Quadra...but it's my "backup drive"..I work off of the laptop drive or my WD my passport studio. No "raid" in the Lacie, but I like the drive a lot.

I have a WD mybook which could be 2tb raid 0 (no protection) or 1TB raid 1...but it's noisy and seems to run hot.

For just 2TB storage I'd buy any of the three brands as long as it's a single 7200rpm drive .

[kirbinster]

All hard drives suck, and all WILL FAIL! Its just a matter of time! That said, if you need two TB of space buy more and either mirror them manually or set them up as RAID1 or RAID10. I don't like RAID5 as recovery on large drives can be problematic. I set my new machine up with four 2TB drives set up as a RAID10 array. RAID10 is sometime called raid 0+1, basically it has striping for speed and mirroring for data redundancy. Last but not least - backup, backup, backup!