Backup drive crashed

My Iomega Prestige 1TB backup drive crashed today, well really a few days ago.  It apparently was hot and making a load whining noise and so was turned off.  Now I get beep, click, beep click…. when I turn it on.  Iomega support says that it is the power supply but I think that is a stall tactic.  I may go out and buy another drive today so that I have two backup drives.  But should I buy the same drive that failed?  It had a great reviews, but this drive just sits on top of a desktop computer and is not moved at all and has failed within 6 months.  Yes I have lost a handful of files, but not worth spending the $800 or more to recover them.

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