I've always stuck with IBM and Fujitsu

On the other hand, I'm not going with IBM and Fujitsu, because of the controversy about failure rates that weren't getting acknowledged by either IBM or Fujitsu. Mainly because I had two IBM disks go bad, along with one Fujitsu disk fairly recently.

At the moment, I am mostly buying Seagate drives.

The thing is: hard disk companies go through good patches and bad patches. A year or so ago, I'd have bought nothing but IBM disks, and I'd have avoided Seagate like the plague.

I've never bought a WD disk, mainly because performance was so poor in the past. These days, who knows?

But, that was then. This is now. Bias against disk manufacturers founded on bad experiences from more than a couple of years ago is, IMO, unfounded.