I dealt with many 1tb drives in the past, and personally i think WD are the best, their MAYBE slighly more pricey compare to similar sized other HDD brands, but you get what you pay for. All my HDD'S are WD 1tb with 2x 500GB now in one system. My old drives were Samsung Spinpoint 500gb's, and their not bad either. For some reason i dont like seagate HDD's anymore, even though i had them for just over a year, but then got rid of them via ebay.