Looking for a 2TB external hard drive with eSATA

I was just wondering if anyone might have any ideas to point me in the right direction with this.

Basically, I am currently using a 1TB Western Digital My Book Home Edition (which replaced my previous 320GB WD external hard drive) for archiving data off my laptop hard drives and storing movies, music, etc. As I have a general habit of never deleting anything, this has since been filled up and I am looking for a 2TB equivelant to my current drive.

It should be noted that my current drive comes with a bunch of additional features such as firewire & eSATA support along with WD software and a capacity indicator. I'm not really interested in most of that, but I do want eSATA (and preferrably firewire) support.

Anyway, a quick perusal of the WD website reveals plenty of 2TB USB3.0 hard drives (which are completely pointless because I'm not going to getting anything with a USB3.0 port in the forseeable future) but the only drive with eSATA is the Studio II which has dual-hard drives. The problem is that they only offer it in either RAID 0 or RAID 1 and I have a strong diislike of the lack of data security of RAID 0 (I've had drives crash in the past and it's not an enjoyable experience) which means I'd need to go for RAID 1 and that means I'd need a dual-2TB drive setup, which is hideously expensive.

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone knows of a 2TB hard drive which supprts eSATA and doesn't use RAID 0?

 

A quick guided search at Newegg turns up this. It's kind of pricey, but it looks like it comes with all the cables you would need.

Alternatively, it would be cheaper if you bought an OEM 2 TB HDD and a separate external enclosure.

If you can live without Firewire and use USB and eSATA, you can find less expensive enclosures.

Seeing you you're outside the USA, you can use the links I provided as reference for shopping at your preferred online retailer.

 

You can buy any 2TB hard drive and put it into the enclosure you already have of your 1TB Western Digital My Book Home Edition. Search on Google or Youtube for how to open it up. The drive can be from any manufacturer, not just WD. I am currently running this setup. I have Samsung drives inside WD My Book enclosures.

 

Buy Icy Box Docking station & Seagate Barracuda ST32000542AS 2TB. Total Cost £89 + Delivery (£7.00)

You can hot swap your old HDD any time.

 

Thermaltake Max 4 + Samsung Spinpoint F4EG 2TB