We used to specify Seagate drives for all 140 PCs in our office. Those made in China just fail right after their warranty period even if their spec sheets indicate MTBF (mean-time-before-failure) to be 10 times over. Those made in Singapore are a lot more durable - but mostly SCSI drives for our servers.

Since 2001, we have shifted to Maxtor drives for workstation PCs and so far, no failure yet, whatsoever, or are we just lucky with this batch. We still stick to Seagate SCSI (U160 & U320) drives for our servers - they're pretty tough (with rated MTBF of over 1 million hours), and with 100% reliability.