I'm in the market for a new hard drive, preferably an external because there's no more room inside my computer. I'm looking for somewhere in the 500GB range, and I found some on Newegg for around $130-$150. The thing I'm worried about is that a lot of reviews for external hard drives, on just about all of them, say that they crap out really soon. It's like, one review will say they've had it since 1834 and they threw it from a plane into the Hiroshima a-bombing and they went home to find it sparkling on their front lawn as good as new. The next will say they plugged it in and the case fell apart and left a steaming pile of shit on the desk.
So I need help finding a high-capacity, relatively cheap, operationally reliable, external hard drive.