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>>> One, it's probably labeled however the drive manufacturer labeled it.
>>> It's not like HP makes disk drives.
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>> Really? So what's the deal with the full-page "HP original HDs"
>> listing then?
>
> It probably means it's the ones that HP have bought and had labelled as
> being "HP" (and perhaps agreed some slighty different specs). Like a
> "Dell original battery" is most certainly not made by Dell.
Probably means you have to buy it from HP to not void your warranty. ;-)
> Wikipedia tells me this:
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> "The technological resources and know-how required for modern drive
> development and production mean that as of 2009, virtually all of the
> world's HDDs are manufactured by just five large companies: Seagate,
> Western Digital, Hitachi (which owns the former disk manufacturing
> division of IBM), Samsung, and Toshiba."
Do you remember off-hand who owns Maxtor now?
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