On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Bruce Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > I won't buy any SATA > mechanical drives except Hitachi.
Hitachi's storage division was sold off and split up last year. Their 2.5" HDD and SDD lines now belong to Western Digital (who continue to sell the *Star models under the "HGST" brand name), while their 3.5" HDD lines now belong to Toshiba who are selling them under the Toshiba brand name. Toshiba never made 3.5" HDD's before, and they purchased Hitachi's brands, designs, patents and factories relating to 3.5" HDDs. Many of the Toshiba HDD's being sold today, in Toshiba boxes with Toshiba labels and new model numbers, in fact still have the Hitachi brand name and model number embedded in the chipset when you hook it up to your computer.
