On 13 September 2017 at 16:18, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at 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.