Which External Hard Drive

I believe it has been a while since this was asked. I just had a Samsung drive crash on me and need to shop for a replacement 2 or 3 TB external hard drive. I can buy Seagate and WD locally. I've had bad luck with external drives, having had failures with WD, LaCie and Seagate drives in addition to the Samsung which just failed. I'm beginning to think that no matter what brand I buy, it will fail, so I just need to take my chances and be sure everything is backed up.... Any thoughts?