I still have the original IBM Travelstar HDDs in my empeg. It's been over two years now and they work without a hitch - considering I'm playing several hours every day. There is a catch however - I have installed a cooling fan.
Fujitsu is very quiet drive compared to Toshiba. I've had Toshiba 2Gb drive fail on me, but it wasn't final. The drive was failing intermittently and I was able to back up the data before ditching it. I agree that when IBM drive fails, it fails hard. I've had 1.7 Gb drive which gave me a good run for 5 years. Later it gave me a "click of death".
These days I just put a dedicated cooling fan for the hard drive and forget about it.