Seagate Technology 200 GB USB 2.0 and FireWire External Drive ( ST3200823A-RK )
So far it's working perfectly
Although there is no way I can predict how long this drive will hold itself, it is so far working perfectly. I hope the drive to stay healthy for years at least.    I bought this drive about 2 weeks ago, to use it mainly as movie storage. Since then, the drive was running at least 10 hrs per day for playing movies, but the drive is still working without a problem.    I use this drive via firewire connection(not because I specifically prefer the type of connection, but all of my usb ports (10 of them) are in use), and data transfer rate is very satisfactory; difference not very noticeable(other people may feel differently) from that of my other 2 WD internal hard drives.    Design is simple and luxurious, and the unit emits little heat after hours of use. It's a bit heavy, but I personally don't trust featherweight toy-like storage drives.    One complaint: the drive is pre-formatted in FAT32, so I had to re-format the unit; it took a while. Other than that, I am completely satisfied with the drive so far.    Update (Aug 2, 2005):  - I now have two of this drive. However, the first one sometimes makes subtle ticking sounds(I don't know why), but it seems that it isn't really a problem.    Update (Dec 8, 2006):  - I have been using three of this drive for about an year; left turned-on 24 hours almost every day(I rarely turn off my PC). Yet, none of them failed so far. It's probably because that I only store big(minimum 200mb) media files in these drive. If you store massive number of small files, maybe the drive show different result.