Seagate Hard Drives were the front-runners in the HD business long before anyone heard of WesternDigital and when Maxtor only made cassette tapes as a business.
I use 2 Seagates on my system and have not had issues in 5 years (dating the longest continuous-use one). My system is on 24-7 so that is a long time between failures
Of course, HDs are like women... every one has its own mileage and yours may vary.
/em ****Ducks****
PS--- Always Backup Data frequently to an external storage medium, unless you have nothing on your system that you would miss if the computer burned up in a fire.