Manufacturer-wise I recommend Seagate. My previous machine had a pair of Seagate Barracuda drives as a RAID-0 array. That's the low-reliability way round, where it's twice as fast but either disk failing will screw your data. And after years of extremely heavy use, the whole setup is still working as well as the day I bought it.
(Several of my earlier machines also had Seagate drives, which also never failed.)
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Date: 2009-05-27 11:39 am (UTC)(Several of my earlier machines also had Seagate drives, which also never failed.)