Seagate has long been my brand of choice for hard drives. I have never had one of their drives fail. I still use one of their 9 GB SCSI drives in an old Sun Ultra 5. That drive is about 12 years old. Recent news makes me wonder if I've been lucky and whether I need to start looking elsewhere.
In the past, I've lost more WD drives than I can count but they seem to be doing better in recent times. I lost all four drives in a Hitachi RAID within one week of each other (makes you really doubt the controller). I lost one of the four in an old Maxtor RAID, but there have been no issues with the RAID in the approximately 2 years since replacing that drive.
I have about 15 Fujitsu drives that are still in their static wrap. A friend gave them to me after having an entire RAID replaced off an RMA. He never trusted the drives enough to use them after that. I never hooked them up either so I don't have any personal experience with them.
No experience with Samsung drives either.
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!