external drives for server backups

Anyone have any suggestions for very reliable external hard drives? Need a couple 500GB external hdds for backing up a few servers. Originally was going to buy a whole tape system, but for less than 500GB of data and 4 servers, i thought it was overkill.
thanks for suggestions

 

ya we back up to external HD as well. Right now we are using http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=333

 

what are you using to make the backups? ntbackup or do you image the whole server drive?

 

We use Symantec BackupExec 12.5 we back up C:, D: which houses Home drives and profiles as well as system state for our File servers. Our terminal servers we don't do anything with yet but I am going to eventually be making periodic images of all our servers with Acronis True Image Echo Server for Windows, which allows you to restore an image to dissimiliar hardware if needed.

 

Nice. I'll have to look into backup exec. thanks man

 

not a problem