Avastor is a manufacturer of professional hard drives for the A/V market.  Their HDX series of drives are used around the world.  They have recently introduced the SDX line of drives that are priced to compete with Lacie and other consumer brands of hard drives.  The Avastor SDX offers incredible value along with a 3 year warranty.  With the SDX line Avastor has moved into the "prosumer" market and offers these pro drives at a consumer drive price. 

SDX Product Overview

The Avastor SDX SATA external hard disk drive is designed to exceed the demands of professionals who store, transfer and create digital media. Whether it is uncompressed high-definition digital video, multi-track high resolution audio, mega pixel digital photography or any application that requires maximum throughput the choice is the Avastor SDX. Using only SATA II 7200 RPM hard drives with up to 32 MB of cache and a Oxford Semiconductor high-speed bridge, the SDX external hard drive provides maximum storage performance.