I've had 3 Samsung/Seagate drives die on my laptop after about 5 months since they make Samsung HDDs too but really I'm chalking it down to bad luck cause I also have a 3.5in Samsung drive that's had no problems for 5 years, I just think most HDD manufacturers pretty much have the same failure rates and that they can either last 2 days or 8 years partially depending on how often you use it cause technology is just like that
Random hardware failures just happen, I don't think Seagate is particularly bad especially since quite a few people still recommend them