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the lacie power bricks often go pop. now i just buy drives based on their warranty, currently using WD my book premiums (or they may be pro's?) as the warrenty is longer, think it may be 3-5 years.
my advice would be to buy 2 drives and keep the other one at a different location.
don't get usb only as you can't boot from it (you knew this already).
do not get any of the drives that package 2 drives in one case like the lacie terrabyte ones as they span across 2 drives as one volume so twice as likely to lose your data because of 2 drives being used (but fast access/write speeds)
do not buy the iomega ultramax thingy from the apple store it's shit, i had to send 3 back as one drive wouldn't mount, it couldn't be seen as 2 volumes and a third one the drives were loose inside the casing. you also have to phone tech support in the netherlands and when you want to escalate your complaint they charge you 25euro to do so!