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I work in and have worked in IT since 1981. During this time I have done a lot of repairs and attempted both successful and unsuccessful recoveries of floppy discs and Hard drives.
In my experience the Seagate drives that I have come across from users failed "slowly", usually a bad block or two surfaces, highlighting an issue and has given enough time to clone it with virtually no loss of data. Other brands that I have had to deal with have rarely failed like this, usually its been a fried IC on the controller or a catastrophic head crash.
Now even though Seagate drives have proven to me the be the better brand they are not without issues. The Seagate 7200.11 series had a serious firmware flaw. Google it. I had to go to extreme lengths to get my data back from the 1Tb version of this that I had.
Currently my personal photo and video store is backup up onto a Seagate 1Tb 2.5 AND ALSO a WD 1Tb 2.5 AND ALSO I have offsite a 500Gb (Samsung)+750Gb Seagate. I hedge my bets on more than one brand/model.
So in my limited experience Seagate has by far been the least troublesome. As for floppy discs I recovered more Verbatim that any other brand but perhaps they sold more that any other tilting the statistics?
There is one main program that is my go to for HD recovery, its worked where dozens of others failed.
In the end if the data is valuable consider a professional recovery service.
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