I agree, it should be on par with other 1TB drives in reliability. There's a hard drive reliability database at StorageReview. This drive has been submitted 22 times and failed only once:
http://www.storagereview.com/php/survey/survey_result_tree.php?mfrID=32&famID=268&modID=937&k1=uHdG9BGYn6&id=0&ph=