I am looking at a 3TB hard drive for a specific purpose.

This drive will see occasional use, maybe once a month dropped into an external dock to do a full system backup (including OS, system files, and executables) to be kept off-premises.

Would this be a good drive for this purpose, or should I look elsewhere? At the moment I have 1,903 GB (1.86 TB) of data which is more than a nominally 2TB drive will hold, so I need the 3TB capacity.

Blazing fast speed is not a requirement, in fact (like with the empeg) a slower drive would be advantageous in terms of reliability and heat generation.

Suggestions?

tanstaafl.

edit: Hmmm... the backup software I was looking at claims to support hard drives only up to 2TB. That changes things, maybe...