I had some Maxtor and WD disks dying, but they were all external drives, that's why nowadays I don't trust external disks that much anymore.

One IBM Deskstar also died, internal one, and had the so famous clicking sound.

Since some years I'm using only Samsung drives, which seem so far to be very reliable. At the moment I use 5 2TB Spinpoint EcoGreen F3 drives.

I only read good things also about the Seagate Momentus XT disks.