I have a lacie silverscreen 40gb Hard drive one of the ones designed to play avi files etc on tv. Did lots of research before buying watched 6 hours of files just last thursday no problem no over heating in fact ran quite cool.

Lacie do have bad reputation for customer service was one thing I found in my research, but they score highly on performance for most of their flagship models, personally I think bricks are a gimmick but there porche drives (is that right car) are really well respected.