Most reliable portable hard drives?

I usually use Western Digital My Passport (or similar) portable hard drives.

But lately 2 has seemingly crapped themselves (both 3 years old I guess) and another one has a connection problem (have to hold the mini USB end down hard for it to work).

So I am wondering if there are any brands that are more reliable?

Or is this normal for a HD to only last 2-3 years?

cheers

Probably the most reliable and rugged drives are the solid state type but they are only realistically priced in smaller sizes just yet - eg 128GB for £190 http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/Search...&CatId=3635 A 500GB might be around £900

Put it into a caddy eg http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/Search...&CatId=2887.

The caddy would also be suitable for repairing your drive with the dodgy USB if it is the laptop 2.5" size but you can get similar caddys for 3.5" desktop format.

The caddy would also be suitable for repairing your drive with the dodgy USB if it is the laptop 2.5" size but you can get similar caddys for 3.5" desktop format.

Will look into it, thanks.

Yeah the SSD's are a long way off yet as far as $ goes.

Something for the future tho.

I've lost so much data with my HDs going awol.

It seems that most of them will fail at some point. It's just a question of when!