I assume this poll is for IDE/SATA drives. I use (mostly) old SCSI drives, and they have been great. I've used both Seagate and Maxtor flavors, in a variety of sizes and speeds.
OTOH, I've never lost a drive of any kind (I do have three computers with IDEs; one dates back to 2001). I recently fired up my old 486 computer (from 1992, IIRC), which has a 250MB WD. Still works fine, though my God does Windows 3.1 feel dated.
The only issues I've seen are with notebook drives, which seem uniformly to fail after a couple of years. My wife has lost a couple on her laptop.
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