I just had my second Western Digital Special Edition 200 GB drive die on me.
My company ships hundreds of these every month, with very few problems. Seagate is still our favorite, as far as reliability goes. We were wary of WD when we first started using them (there was a point when Seagate just wasn't making big enough drives for our storage servers), but the WD "jb" drives (don't bother with the bb, etc) have seemed to be pretty decent, all things considered.
Keep in mind that a few drives dying is bound to happen -- there have been had lots where every drive in a group will die within a relatively short period of time -- but when you deal with hundreds, "a few here and there" is a lot less damaging than when the "few" are the only two you have.
No one in the reliable-storage industry trusts maxtor yet. Their older drives are pretty reliable (I have a 20G that works great), but there was a period where their quality/reliability really sucked, and they have yet to repair the damage it caused to their image.
Please also keep in mind that I'm talking about SATA drives. WD's PATA drives were considerably less reliable than their SATA drives are (but still not that bad, all things considered)
Personally, I'd go with seagate 7200.7 -- it's what I have running in my pundit, and has been going fine for almost a year now. Seagate also has a longer warranty than the other companies.
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