Iused to buy Western Digital hard drives. Then I discovered Seagate's 5 year warranty, and High customer rating at Newegg. Thats all I buy now.
I've got a bunch of Maxtor 200gigers that are doing okay for more than a year now.
I've had bad luck with their Quantum brand though. Their SCSI drives fail like crazy. Still, that's after 2+ years of constant enterprise use. What drive is going to last forever?
What I liked about Maxtor was that they were constantly pushing the edge and keeping the industry on its toes.
It was a crap stock to own, but I made a good bit when Seagate took the plunge. My father was a huge Maxtor fan. He fell in love with the stock. (big mistake for any stock) He talked me into buying some and both my mom and I kept the stock after he died for sentimental reasons. I was pleasantly surprised when the sale went through. :D
Funny thing is, in the last 20 years the only drive I had that crapped out was a Seagate. All I buy are WD.