Ironically Seagate bought them (Maxtor) back in the 2000's. I had a external shuckable Maxtor that died within two years - think thats the going rate for my other Seagates as well; and that goes all the way from SATA back to IDE. Think I've had tried most of the major brands apart from Hitachi. The only ones that haven't failed are my 1TB Samsung HDD that still works and my 5TB Toshiba I have currently. I had like two WD fail in the past so I might give Hitachi a shot next.
But yeah hate when HDD's fail. That's why I'm inclined to spend more in local backups in case anything goes wrong. And ouch at that drop, its weird.. sometimes they can take a beating other times a simple shock and its a goner. Think most drives have a sensors and drop protection now built in though, which is reassuring when you have to swap one out.
