What wireless external hard drive would you recommend?

I like Western Digital for hard drives.
http://www.wdc.com

I like Western Digital for external hard drives and some internal ones, but not the wireless kind.

I know someone with a 1 TB HDD with internet connectivity and the drive itself is fine, but the software is buggy and freaking SLOW…it’s just the software that totally ruins it.

Sorry I glazed over the wireless part.
I don’t like wireless drives. USB is a more stable way to go. Wireless hdds beg for data corruption.

Well, I have a Macbook and I move all over the house constantly. I want the external to hold mostly music and video for now just to free up space because that’s probably 80% of what my storage problem is. I don’t really want to deal with lugging around an extra piece of equipment when I move around, know what I mean? To me, that would defeat the purpose of buying a laptop.

Something like this may help:
http://dlink.com/products/?model=DSM-G600

The only external hard drive I ever had was a 1GB Fantom Drive for about six months and I haven’t had any problems with it. Compared to the other ones I found on newegg it was relatively inexpensive

If you buy an Airport Extreme base station, you can plug a USB drive into that and it’ll still be cheaper than a Time Capsule in most cases. You can get 1TB drives for $70 now, then just get something like a Thermaltake BlacX drive mount which is $20 with rebate on slickdeals.net right now and it’ll still be cheaper than a Time Capsule.

After having 3 out of 3 Western Digital drives fail on me in the past year, I will never buy Western Digital again.

Quality costs. Your best bet if you want your data to be secure is to replicate it multiple times over—which means two hard drives that mirror each other—or something like a Drobo.

western digital passport all the way! dont listen to the haters. i’ve had 6 wd hard drives: 3 passports, 2 my books, and a terrabyte non-portable drive. the only one that broke was my own fault after dropping one of the my books from about 4 feet while it was plugged in. I have dropped my passports a few times and have not had any problems with them tho. I would definitely recommend a case for them anyway. either way staples has them on sale right now http://www.staples.com/office/supplies/p16_Western-Digital-500GB-My-Passport-trade-Essential-trade-Portable-Hard-Drive_247997_Business_Supplies_10051_true_SEARCH for 120

and if you buy an e-junkie coupon from the e-junkie webpage (you pay through paypal so its secure) you get a $25 off $100 coupon for like a buck or two making it a real cheap buy for a 500 gb portable drive. I just picked one up at this price earlier in the week, plus it ships the same day for free so you’ll have it in a day.

if you dont feel comfortable using e-junkie tho amazon has them for like 117 with free ship too. These drives are great. I and a few of my friends are all about them.

I have a dead 500GB MyBook, if you want to skip the part where it starts making noise and you hope it won’t fail, and instead want to go straight to the part where you slowly come to the realization that your data is gone and curse Western Digital.