i would go with the maxtor got one myself too, no problems so far plus maxtor is a known name in the computer hardware, i only once or twice heard about lacie, so dont know it's quality...
maxtor is having some troubles with lots of hardrives lately i recommend external hardrive from seagate or western digital if u want to be on the safe side.good luck.
i seen a seagate 160gb that should be good. question though would fl studio run ok if i put it on the external hard drive with all my sounds and all my plug-ins. also i gonna put acid 4.0 and cool edit on it too. or should i leave all programs on my computer hard drive and just put all my sounds and beats on the external?
I put all my sounds and beats on the external and all my programs on my computer, but putting programs on the external sounds like a pretty good idea...just don't know if it's feasible.
If I were to repurchase an external I'd get one that wasn't so damn loud though.