At the end of the day, most drive manufacturers are average for reliability excluding enterprise grade equipment. Just go with a brand you have good experience with. Everybody is going to have some bad experience with every reasonably successful consumer HDD.
If data reliability is something you're looking for, you get a RAID array. Simple as that. And the point of a RAID array is to give you reliability with cheap disks. So again. Doesn't really matter what you choose until you get up to enterprise grade gear.
If data reliability is something you're looking for, you get a RAID array. Simple as that. And the point of a RAID array is to give you reliability with cheap disks. So again. Doesn't really matter what you choose until you get up to enterprise grade gear.