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I agree with Martian and disagree with Plaid13. Except for the statement "Never used a seagate but i have always heard good things about them." which I agree with. It should be noted I hold grudges and have seen a few WD drives do silly things in my years.
For the objective side, though, Western Digital doesn't stand behind the products they sell. Failures while a drive is under warranty are handled pretty similarly by all manufacturers so that response is to be expected. However, all IDE hard drives used to have 3 year warranties. WD reduced their warranty period to 1 year, on all their drives, arbitrarily. Most other manufacturers followed suit. Thanks to WD, nearly all hard drives had their warranties thirded. Seagate, who had been around but was never too big in the consumer market, saw an opportunity and increased their warranties to 5 years on all of their drives. The other manufacturers started burning and increased many of their warranties to 3 years. A few have some models that are 5 years, but I believe they are all higher-end models, i.e. cost more than the others.
An external hard drive is nice, but still is a single point of failure that's made up of multiple components that can fail. That being said, I always suggest Seagates because of the warranty. I think only one has failed on me, and it was an external that got knocked around from time to time.
And Will posted while I was typing this. I agree with him too :)
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