who owns one of this drives? my experience with WD has not been a good one, I have lost to much data due to hardware failures.

Don't buy this POS. Works for a while then 'disappears', corrups data, or simply dies. See reviews on newegg and amazon. Horrible, horrible drive. (and it's $200 everywhere). WD sucks.

My 18 month old MyBook just died today, leaving me in the cold and having to rush and get a replacement for it. It's the second WD hard drive that I've lost among several other ones. No more WD for me, stick with Seagate, cheaper and much more reliable!!!

I bought the usb one two months ago for 180. seems to be working ok for just backing up pictures but you guys are telling me to back up my back up?

I have 47 drives all backing up each other, which is weird since I only backup my minesweeper scores.

#3) This drive has a 3 year warranty. So you should be able to get them to ship you a replacement drive.

We have 3 of the 500gb versions at work as a back-up. So far so good, but they don't have heavy use.

Still the price seems high. I was able to pick up a 1TB Turbo USB/Firewire Buffalo drive for ~$160-170 at the store. The Buffalo drive has extra cooling fans as well. I guess if you need eSATA you have to pay a bit more. But $200 seems high.

I've had the 1 TB for about a year and a 500 GB for a couple years and have yet to have a problem, knock on wood. I only turn them on briefly every month or so to transfer stuff to them, though. Hopefully they won't die at the same time!