I'm not as convinced as to the quality of the LaCie drives as others here, or at least the Porsche version of the drive.

I have 1.5 TBs of storage, all using Acomdata drives. Acomdata was the first external drive I bought, and I figured all else being the same it can't hurt to have the drives from the same manufacturer (superstitious, I know). I tend to pick up new drives when they fill up by looking at what's for sale. I saw an amazing price for the Porsche LaCie drive (350GB?) for something ridiculously low like $65, and picked it up even though it wasn't an Acomdata drive.

So far it's the only external drive I've bought which failed, and it failed right out of the box. I bought it from MicroCenter online (I can't say enough about their house brand of desktop computer) and they were very good about returning the drive for credit. And while it probably isn't important, I am planning to stick with Acomdata.