>>> One, it's probably labeled however the drive manufacturer labeled it. 
>>> It's not like HP makes disk drives.
>>
>> 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:
> 
> "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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