In all my years int he PC industry, I've found that people seem to have runs of luck (good or bad) with particular manufacturers. Some people swear by Maxtor, I wouldn't buy one. However, the best drives I ever used (before my raptors) were IBM Deskstars. Believe it or not, I've NEVER had one die on me, and friend's shop sold those exsclusively with no problems.. In 5 years, I think he sent 3 back. If IBM was still in the HDD biz, he's still be putting them in the machines he sells.
Now a-days, I reccomend Seagate. They are reliable and fast. Unfortunately, they didn't have a 10K SATA product when I built my machine, so I have dual 36G Raptors (RAID 0).
As an aside for those looking to build a machine in the near future, look at the nForce4 chipset and the Intel 955. They will be working RAID 5 into desktop motherboards, and that will give you the speed of striping with full data protection.
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