On 13 September 2017 at 16:18, Valeri Galtsev galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote:
On Wed, September 13, 2017 2:16 pm, John R Pierce wrote:
On 9/13/2017 9:21 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
...The SATA hard drives....[It doesn't matter the brand.. they get built with the same tech and at the same place these days.]
thats most assuredly not true.  HD manufacturing is extremely competitive, there's no WAY they 'are built at the same place'. Each of the few remaining major brands of HD's has their own processes, their own factories and keeps their technology very closely guarded.
Fully agree. And I even have my beloved manufacturer (whose drives have failure rate almost and order of magnitude lower that others).
Valeri
You are correct and I was way out on hyperbole on my comment. I was aiming for going over the consolidation of brands where low-end drives are made at the same place and rebadged to different vendors and took it to the extreme.