Reliable Firewire drives

[Tom M.Blenko]

I bought three LaCie drives in the past two years (2x500GB, 1x2TB). 2TB 
had to go back after about three months, turned out to be a power 
supply failure (but my data was wiped by LaCie nonetheless). All three 
drives failed during the same 2-week period this past October. I 
haven't had time to spend a day with the LaCie tech support folks but 
I've tried them with multiple cables and multiple machines and I'm not 
optimistic.

I bought these drives and thought I paid a modest premium for better 
quality. I'm very unhappy with the quality. These *are* the backup 
drives and prior to the current incident I thought maintaining backups 
across multiple drives was a pretty good way to get a high degree of 
reliability.

So -- what does anyone use for a reliable Firewire drive? I am willing 
to pay more but I want a much better product than the LaCie's.

And while I'm at it, do anyone have a vendor they've had good 
experience with for recovering data from drives?

	Tom