I dunno. I am a pretty regular computer user and never noticed which particular brands failed over the years, granted they were few and far between. Then again, I am not a hardcore gamer or raid storage user. Good to know which drives seem the most reliable, since I have lost some irreplaceable data over the years.
Oh, and I should also add that I have recently begun looking out for a company that can perform some discrete data recovery off of a few dead HDDs, since there might be some *cough* “personal” *cough* data (or vids) still on them that AT LEAST one Ex- might have a problem with someone else seeing...