Originally Posted by SimonScans

The only brand of drive I will no longer buy is WD, their portables are by far the most unreliable brand I've ever used.

I take pairs of drives away on shoots then use Synctoy to keep them synced during the trip. One drive comes to dinner every night and gets to travel in hand baggage, the other stays in the hotel then travels in the hold.

Once we get back I copy one drive to an internal to work on, the other just gets checked then stored in our storage unit.

The one time I lost both drives and everything on them both was my sisters wedding. I kid you not. I did in the end get them recovered, but it wasn't cheap and I still looked like an idiot.

Sorry for your loss though.