2TB Hard Drives?

I need some real life experience with the 2TB hard drives. I have a external enclosure that will support a 2TB drive. This One.
I have read all the horror stories of the firmware problems with the 1.5TB seagates, actually if you search long enough you will find bad reports on all brands of them. I would like to hear from someone who has actually used them. I will buy two of them, one as a internal and one inside the enclosure for backup. Price not a factor in the decision, reliability is. I see there is a difference in speed but it won't matter in my application.
These are the three candidates.
Western Digital
Hitachi
Seagate

 

Thanks for the reply Digitalocksmith. I am like you, I care for my stuff well. Out of over 15 hard drives over the years I've only lost one WD 80gig, it just went from age. I am now running two seagate 500 gigs with no problem in about a year, just need more space and figured a 2TB with a full backup 2TB is a good plan. I've read all the horror stories about them all and figure they are just that, stories. You can find people who can break a stone wall if you look hard enough.

 

be careful with seagate 1.5 TB drives, I've had 2 go bad within a couple months, and the new 5900 RPMs are getting very lousy reviews. I'm on number 3 so far which has reallocated sectors already.

 

I have got a iomega 1TB External hard drive I had no issues with it either its got my mp3 songs on there and some of my best games i play. Still havn't filled yet

 

Thanks for all the feedback. Ok, I am gonna order them this Friday, the Seagate is out of stock, the WD is a OEM, the Hitachi is a full retail. I've never played with Hitachi before so I am think I'm gonna try it. It's the only 7200 rpm drive in the bunch, I will update this in about a month, hopefully with good reviews, or sooner if I get one or both of them DOA.

 

Bumping this back to the top to finalize the review of these Hitachi 2 tb drives. I have been using one as a internal to the box as a data drive, the second is in this Bytecc enclosure. They are a mirror (not raid) of each other. The stories about the click of death, high temps and bad reliability are just that, stories. I have had zero issues and can recommend these two pieces. These on on 24/7 and are quiet, reasonably cool and well big. One grip I have is it took 4 hours to move all my data over to them originally but how is that something bad? I am waiting for tech to get to the point where I can transfer at over 100G/s, I know, I know I am dreaming.

 

Don't forget SATA 6.0G/s is out now, so something faster should be around in 2 years or so.

 

I have a Samsung 1.5TB and have had no problems it is installed as internal and works perfectly.

 

Bumping once more to say I can totally recommend the Hitachi drives. Zero issues with them. Also now running a 80gig X25 SSD as a system drive with Win7. Now I am cooking with gas. @ collinsl, I am now getting ready to buy a new mobo, cpu and ram, am going to have 6.0 SATA and 3.0 USB as requirements.

When does this upgrade game end...