I'm curious on this too. I use to only use Seagate and swore by them. Lately have read some horror stories about them and mine acted up the other night. It wouldn't mount then I went into severe panic mode. I unplugged the power supply and plugged it back in and it seams to work fine. But I am now in the market for a new 1TB FW800 drive. I was eying the Seagate until this episode now I'm looking at OWC's.