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. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz