The only hard drive I have ever had fail was a WD ATA100 years ago. I have 2 WD SATA 3 working now, one is a bit iffy maybe and the other is a bit noisy but works fine. They are older internals however.
All my computers are multiple drives -- with room for backups.
You can always unplug the extra internals and reformat one as the master with the os and then reattach the additional drives, then read and write to them. Redundancy is your friend on workstations -- all production servers should be in RAID.
In the end, it is probably your luck of the draw. Buy 100 harddrives and a few will fail regardless of brand.
I would recommend the Samsung -- I have had the best experience with them SSD ... (so far) ... Again, luck of the draw maybe
