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I dont know what you have read about western digital but i only use them for hard drives for one good reason. few years ago i had a 80 gig hard drive that i had for quite some time and it died after a nasty power surge in a storm. i called the company and without asking any questions at all they sent me a brand new one and had me send my old one back in that box. That kind of service has won me over. in the last ten years i have used nothing but western digital drives and i have only had that one fail and i abuse the hell out of them. always downloading copying erasing over and over nonstop. But that being said i have never had a external drive. But i do know western digital stands behind the products they sell.
Never used a seagate but i have always heard good things about them.
I know you said you want to keep it under $100 but if you plan to be storing dvds on it that will fill up fast at 500gig. each DVD is around 8gig but you can get software to compress them down to 4.6gig or so. Still a large file. Better off just buying yourself one of those cd/dvd books to store them in outside of the case. Its the cases that take up all the room anyway. If not you might want to think about spending the extra cash for a larger drive. Unless you have a small dvd collection. You will also need software to copy and backup the dvds and most have copy protection so you will need software to remove that as well.
Keep in mind when you read reviews on anything that for every 1 bad review theres most likly about 100 people that love the thing and never bothered to write a review. People are much more likely to take the time to complain about something they are upset with then praise what they are happy with.
If you really want to find something your happy with i suggest always looking at middle of the line products. Its almost always the best way to spend your money. The newest and best stuff may be fancy but it will cost twice as much as something that was new and fancy a few months ago. and maybe only be 10% better.
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