I tend to favor Seagate after having failed hardrives from Maxtor , Western Digital *2, Acom Data, Calgary (in the period of 10 years).
The last seagate I bought was 1tb with 5 yr warranty for about 80 USD, but I think you might find 1.5tb for less now.
As far as in backup, hell buy 2, lol they're cheap nowadays.
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