by Zenith » Sun Apr 14, 2013 2:58 am
I bought my Western Digital (WD5000) somewhere back in 2007 and it still works like a charm.
As Herrpoja said, it all depends on the brand, on how you treat it and of course you need a bit of luck as well.
Personally I never spend more than £80-90 on an external hard drive, first of all you never know what might happen and secondly if you have multiple (smaller) external hard drives you will never lose all your data at once - plus you can back up data of high value on several hard drives to decrease the possibility of losing it all.