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It's no good to trust any particular brand of drive because drive failure is just a part of life and the best solution is to be prepared for it.
The best preparation is some sort of backup plan- either synced mirrors or RAID5 boxes.

Any particular brand is a bad thing to make decisions on, all manufacturers have different model lines and different levels of manufacturing quality.

RAID (5 or 1) is not a backup. That's just hardware redundancy.

--Nathan