Reliable External HDD brand?

[Randux]

/buys eHDD/ 3 days later drops eHDD/ eHDD dead.
I'm in the market for a new eHDD but I'm thinking of dropping R900 on a lexar 128GB USB drive because eHDD are not so great, but before I decide I want to know if there's an eHDD brand out there that can take a knock or two? eSSD is not an option because expensive.

 

[$m@Rt@$$]

LaCie

 

[crysis]

Transcend. They use toshiba hdd's, which afaik are the best.

 

[SouthBit]

There is no real 'best' hard drive unfortunately. All are prone to failure after a few months or a few years or a few decades depending on your luck. If you drop them though, then any and all of them will likely fail as they all work on the same principle. You have a tiny, microscopic head that flys nanometers (hundreds of times thinner than a human hair) above the surface of a platter rotating at a few thousand RPM. If you give it a hard knock, damage will occur.

Either get an SSD which has no moving parts or try to handle them better. You do get ones with rubber enclosures that will absorb some shock, but it's not fool proof.