Reliable External HD
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Seagate - I've loved these and Maxtors, but the last one I bought did not come with backup software (the previous 20 drives I've had used Retrospect, which was simple and reliable).
It comes with Memeo and a bunch of useless other bloatware (other Memeo products). Reluctantly, I purchased it for $70 (making my drive overall price go from $120 to $190) as most will simply due to the convenience.
I hate Memeo, it won't let me schedule the backup times and you have to get the Pro version to even select the files/folders you want (there's a super expensive version that lets you choose the time of backups).
All of this Retrospect did for free, more intuitively.
So, for those reasons, I cannot recommend Seagate/Maxtor, even though I've been using them for 10 years with minimal problems.
I have WD and Lacie drives that work fine, also. All luck, I think.
Carbonite - I am a new member, so far it is very good. $50 or so for unlimited backup (I've got about 400 GBs backedup), great tech support (24/7 chat, that works). I had Mozy, but they cancelled the unlimited plan, making my $50/year cost go to about $1000/year.
God I hate it when companies change good policies/products to try to squeeze a few pennies out. They've lost me, surely they'll lose more.