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Banzai? 
How long have you had them? I've had WD and Seagate, not a single problem with either. Heck, my old Maxtor HDD still works well after several years now. Could be just random personal experience I guess, I just haven't had components fail on me like people seem to have with similar products.
Most likely bad personal experience on my behalf.
The current dieing WD is around 12 months old, the external prior to that was around 12 months old and the 2 internals prior to that both died around 2 years of age.
Although yesterday I've cracked open said dieing external and mounted internally (taking out a drive) and it seems to be doing better and somehow having less errors / SMART errors. Still dubious as to storing anything important on it though.
The only other externals I have now are 2 Maxtor personal storage 3200. To which, both have 320GB Seagate Barracuda drives within the casing.
Never had an issue with a Seagate, Hitachi or Samsung drives nor my old IDE Quantum Fireball drive.
I suppose its luck of the draw really....