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Hi Frank,
If I were you, I would probably buy a single external drive, partition it into two partitions:
As for brands, I recently bought LaCie and Maxtor, both of which have given me problems (disk problems). Our system administrator just bought for our main office Seagate drives. It seems that in general as disks get larger, their mean time to failure seems to go down, but probably in the future I’ll buy Seagate until that brand also demonstrates problems.