Over the years I have had numerous hard drives and my personal experience tells me that Western Digital is the worst brand for hard drives. I can’t believe how many times I had Western Digital and they all dead sooner or later. Western Digital is definitely not the hard drive brand that I will ever buy again.
Hitachi is better than Western Digital but the best drives I had are Seagate hard drives. Seagate drives are tough and reliable, I have one for years of bittorrent downloads and it never failed.