{"id":56734,"date":"2021-02-19T16:16:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T00:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:drivesaversdatarecovery.com\/\/?p=56734"},"modified":"2026-11-04T10:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T18:51:19","slug":"hard-drive-manufacturers-who-makes-hard-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drivesaversdatarecovery.com\/nl-nl\/blog\/hard-drive-manufacturers-who-makes-hard-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Hard Drive Manufacturers You Should Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div id=\"case-study-image-and-title\" class=\"vc_section blog-header-top-padding vc_custom_1742716765886 wpex-vc-full-width-section wpex-vc-full-width-section--centered wpex-relative wpex-vc_section-has-fill wpex-vc-reset-negative-margin\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid wpex-relative no-bottom-margins\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_raw_code 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sans-serif;font-weight:600;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-image-banner wpex-flex wpex-flex-col wpex-w-100 wpex-justify-center wpex-relative wpex-overflow-hidden wpex-bg-gray-900 wpex-text-white wpex-hover-text-white wpex-text-left wpex-rounded-md vcex-has-img-tag cs-main-image-header vcex_6aeb80206a16b\"><img  src=\"https:\/\/drivesaversdatarecovery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Hard-Drive-Manufacturers-Who-Makes-Hard-Drives-in-2026.png\" class=\"vcex-ib-img wpex-block wpex-transition-all wpex-duration-500\" alt=\"\"><div class=\"vcex-ib-content-wrap wpex-w-100 wpex-transition-all wpex-duration-500 wpex-absolute wpex-inset-0 wpex-flex wpex-items-center wpex-p-30\"><div class=\"vcex-ib-content wpex-flex-grow wpex-mr-auto\"><div class=\"vcex-ib-title wpex-heading\">Hard Drive Manufacturers:<\/div><div class=\"vcex-ib-caption wpex-text-lg wpex-last-mb-0\">Who Makes Hard Drives in 2026?<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"case-study-blurb-and-scenario\" class=\"vc_section wpex-vc-full-width-section wpex-vc-full-width-section--centered wpex-relative wpex-vc_section-has-fill wpex-vc-reset-negative-margin\" style=\"background-color:#f1f1f1!important;\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid wpex-relative no-bottom-margins\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 30px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div><style>.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80206b654{color:#3e3d3e;font-size:45px;font-weight:400;}@media (max-width:1024px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80206b654{font-size:30px;}}@media (max-width:959px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80206b654{font-size:30px;}}@media (max-width:767px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80206b654{font-size:30px;}}@media (max-width:479px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80206b654{font-size:30px;}}<\/style><h2 class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl wpex-h2 wpex-text-left vcex_6aeb80206b654\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">Hard Drive Manufacturers<br>and Storage Brands <span style=\"color: #e31f26\"><strong>You Should Know<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 10px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row-o-content-top vc_row-flex wpex-relative no-bottom-margins wpex-cols-right\"><div class=\"wpb_column blog-educational-image vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1739319183592\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 30px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div>\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>Your hard drive is where your data actually lives, whether that\u2019s a traditional hard disk drive spinning away inside a desktop or a solid-state drive soldered into a laptop. Capacity, speed, form factor, price: there\u2019s a lot to weigh before you buy. But most people skip the question sitting underneath all of that. Who makes hard drives in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is shorter than you\u2019d think. As of 2026, only three hard drive manufacturers still build HDDs: Seagate, Toshiba, and Western Digital. That\u2019s it. Several of the biggest names in storage \u2014 Samsung, SanDisk, Kingston, Crucial, and HP among them \u2014 either left the hard disk drive business years ago or never made hard drives at all. They still belong on this list, though, because they\u2019re where most of today\u2019s flash memory and SSDs come from.<\/p>\n<p>Search for hard drive brands, hard disk brands, or hard disc brands, and you\u2019ll usually get a list that mixes those two groups together. So here\u2019s the hard disk drive company list as it actually stands: what each company makes today, and for the ones that got out, when they got out.<\/p>\n<p>If you landed here because a drive just stopped working, the next section covers how to identify what you have, and what not to do while you work that out.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_section vc_custom_1780505472062 wpex-vc-full-width-section wpex-vc-full-width-section--centered wpex-relative wpex-vc_section-has-fill wpex-vc-reset-negative-margin\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid wpex-relative no-bottom-margins\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 30px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div><style>.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80206d166{color:#3e3d3e;font-size:45px;font-weight:400;}@media (max-width:1024px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80206d166{font-size:30px;}}@media (max-width:959px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80206d166{font-size:30px;}}@media (max-width:767px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80206d166{font-size:30px;}}@media (max-width:479px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80206d166{font-size:30px;}}<\/style><h2 class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl wpex-h2 wpex-text-left vcex_6aeb80206d166\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">How to Find Out <span style=\"color: #e31f26\"><strong>Who Made Your Hard Drive<\/strong><\/span>\n<\/span><\/h2><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 10px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_custom_1793814308373 wpex-relative wpex-vc_row-has-fill no-bottom-margins wpex-vc-reset-negative-margin\" style=\"border-color:#000000!important;\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1793814283083\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><style>.vcex-icon-box.vcex_6aeb80206e1e3 .vcex-icon-box-content{color:#6f737e;}.vcex-icon-box.vcex_6aeb80206e1e3 .vcex-icon-box-icon{color:#f60000;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-icon-box vcex-icon-box-one wpex-flex wpex-text-left vc_custom_1793810606120 vcex_6aeb80206e1e3\"><div class=\"vcex-icon-box-symbol vcex-icon-box-symbol--icon wpex-flex-shrink-0 wpex-mr-20\"><div class=\"vcex-icon-box-icon wpex-items-center wpex-justify-center wpex-child-inherit-color wpex-text-center wpex-leading-none wpex-flex wpex-text-1\"><span class=\"wpex-flex wpex-icon--w fa fa-solid fa-triangle-exclamation\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vcex-icon-box-text wpex-flex-grow\"><div class=\"vcex-icon-box-content wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>One warning comes before everything else here. If the drive is already failing, making noise, mounting intermittently, or vanishing from the system, stop using it. Repeatedly powering a failing drive up and down, even just to read a model number off it, can turn a recoverable problem into an unrecoverable one. Leave it alone and call a recovery specialist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row-o-content-top vc_row-flex wpex-relative no-bottom-margins wpex-cols-right\"><div class=\"wpb_column blog-educational-image vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1739319183592\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 20px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div>\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>On a drive that\u2019s working normally, identifying the manufacturer takes about thirty seconds. The brand printed on the outside often isn\u2019t the company that built the mechanism inside, so the only reliable way to know is to ask your computer.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 10px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_custom_1793811228402 vc_row-o-equal-height vc_row-flex wpex-relative wpex-vc-has-custom-column-spacing wpex-vc-column-spacing-20 wpex-vc_row-has-fill no-bottom-margins wpex-vc-reset-negative-margin\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div style=\"border-color:#000000!important;\" class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1772463581734\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><style>.vcex-icon-box.vcex_6aeb80206fa4a .vcex-icon-box-content{color:#6f737e;}.vcex-icon-box.vcex_6aeb80206fa4a .vcex-icon-box-heading{color:#f60000;}.vcex-icon-box.vcex_6aeb80206fa4a .vcex-icon-box-icon{color:#f60000;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-icon-box vcex-icon-box-two wpex-block wpex-text-center vcex_6aeb80206fa4a\"><div class=\"vcex-icon-box-symbol vcex-icon-box-symbol--icon wpex-mb-20\"><div class=\"vcex-icon-box-icon wpex-items-center wpex-justify-center wpex-child-inherit-color wpex-text-center wpex-leading-none wpex-inline-flex wpex-text-1\"><span class=\"wpex-flex fa fa-brands fa-windows\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vcex-icon-box-text\"><h3 class=\"vcex-icon-box-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-md wpex-mb-10\">On Windows<\/h3><div class=\"vcex-icon-box-content wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p style=\"text-align: left\">Open Device Manager and expand Disk drives. What you see there is the drive\u2019s model string, which is the manufacturer\u2019s own designation rather than the retail brand. You can get the same information in PowerShell with Get-PhysicalDisk.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div style=\"background-color:#f2f2f200!important;border-color:#000000!important;\" class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1792605336924\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><style>.vcex-icon-box.vcex_6aeb8020707db .vcex-icon-box-content{color:#6f737e;}.vcex-icon-box.vcex_6aeb8020707db .vcex-icon-box-heading{color:#f60000;}.vcex-icon-box.vcex_6aeb8020707db .vcex-icon-box-icon{color:#f60000;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-icon-box vcex-icon-box-two wpex-block wpex-text-center vcex_6aeb8020707db\"><div class=\"vcex-icon-box-symbol vcex-icon-box-symbol--icon wpex-mb-20\"><div class=\"vcex-icon-box-icon wpex-items-center wpex-justify-center wpex-child-inherit-color wpex-text-center wpex-leading-none wpex-inline-flex wpex-text-1\"><span class=\"wpex-flex fa fa-brands fa-apple\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vcex-icon-box-text\"><h3 class=\"vcex-icon-box-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-md wpex-mb-10\">On a Mac<\/h3><div class=\"vcex-icon-box-content wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p style=\"text-align: left;letter-spacing: -0.025em\">Choose Apple menu, then System Settings, then General, then About, then System Report. Select Storage in the sidebar, or look under NVMe or SATA for the device description.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row-o-content-top vc_row-flex wpex-relative no-bottom-margins wpex-cols-right\"><div class=\"wpb_column blog-educational-image vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1739319183592\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 10px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div>\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>That model string tells you the manufacturer once you know the prefixes. These cover most of what you\u2019ll run into:<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 10px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row-o-content-top vc_row-flex wpex-relative no-bottom-margins\"><div class=\"wpb_column blog-educational-image vc_column_container vc_col-sm-4 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1739319183592\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<ul>\n<li><strong>ST<\/strong>: Seagate<\/li>\n<li><strong>WDC or WD<\/strong>: Western Digital<\/li>\n<li><strong>TOSHIBA, MQ, MG, or DT<\/strong>: Toshiba<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-8\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<ul>\n<li><strong>HGST, HUH, HUS, or HTS<\/strong>: HGST drives, which Western Digital now owns<\/li>\n<li><strong>MZ or SAMSUNG<\/strong>: Samsung<\/li>\n<li><strong>CT<\/strong>: Crucial, manufactured by Micron<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row-o-content-top vc_row-flex wpex-relative no-bottom-margins wpex-cols-right\"><div class=\"wpb_column blog-educational-image vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1739319183592\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 10px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div>\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>It\u2019s also a quick way to catch a surprise. Pull the model string off an external drive, and you\u2019ll frequently find a Seagate, Toshiba, or Western Digital mechanism sitting inside a case with somebody else\u2019s logo on it.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 10px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_custom_1793811228402 vc_row-o-equal-height vc_row-flex wpex-relative wpex-vc-has-custom-column-spacing wpex-vc-column-spacing-20 wpex-vc_row-has-fill no-bottom-margins wpex-vc-reset-negative-margin\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div style=\"border-color:#000000!important;\" class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1793812676556\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h3 style=\"text-align: center; color: #f60000;\">Seagate<\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"color: #f60000;\">Status: Still manufacturing hard drives<\/h4>\n<p>Seagate is the oldest name on this HDD manufacturers list. The company was founded in 1978, shipped its first hard disk drive in 1980, and hasn\u2019t stopped since. It\u2019s one of only three disk drive manufacturers still operating today.<\/p>\n<p>It got there largely by absorbing the competition, picking up Conner Peripherals in 1996, Maxtor in 2006, and Samsung\u2019s hard drive division in 2011. So if you\u2019ve owned a drive under some other brand name in the past thirty years, there\u2019s a decent chance it was a Seagate underneath.<\/p>\n<p>Seagate has historically competed hard on price for consumers, which is part of why its drives turn up so often in external enclosures and prebuilt desktops. It ships slightly fewer drives each year than Western Digital, and comfortably more than Toshiba.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div style=\"background-color:#f2f2f200!important;border-color:#000000!important;\" class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1793812683861\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h3 style=\"text-align: center; color: #f60000;\">Western Digital<\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"color: #f60000;\">Status: Still manufacturing hard drives<\/h4>\n<p>Founded in 1970, Western Digital is the hard drive manufacturer most people have owned something from, whether they knew it or not. Like Seagate, it grew by acquisition, completing its purchase of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, later HGST, in March 2012. Today it\u2019s the largest of the three by unit shipments, though its lead over Seagate is thin.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a more recent change that a lot of buying guides still have wrong. On February 24, 2025, Western Digital completed the separation of its flash business. SanDisk is now an independent, publicly traded company again. WD kept the hard drives and is, for the first time in years, a hard-drive-focused company. SanDisk took the SSDs, memory cards, and USB flash drives, and it still sells WD-branded flash storage under license.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_custom_1793811228402 vc_row-o-equal-height vc_row-flex wpex-relative wpex-vc-has-custom-column-spacing wpex-vc-column-spacing-20 wpex-vc_row-has-fill no-bottom-margins wpex-vc-reset-negative-margin\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div style=\"border-color:#000000!important;\" class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1793812693110\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h3 style=\"text-align: center; color: #f60000;\">Toshiba<\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"color: #f60000;\">Status: Still manufacturing hard drives<\/h4>\n<p>Of the three remaining hard disk drive manufacturers, Toshiba is the one most often missing from a list like this one. It became a major player when it acquired Fujitsu\u2019s hard drive assets in 2009, and it has stayed put while nearly everyone else sold out.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a distant third by volume, and the one you\u2019re least likely to have bought on purpose. Buy enterprise or NAS storage, and you\u2019ve probably handled a Toshiba drive. Buy consumer externals, and you may never have seen one.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div style=\"background-color:#f2f2f200!important;border-color:#000000!important;\" class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1793812708783\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h3 style=\"text-align: center; color: #f60000;\">Samsung<\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"color: #f60000;\">Status: Left the hard drive business in 2011<\/h4>\n<p>Samsung built hard disk drives for over two decades before selling that division to Seagate in 2011. Any spinning drive with its name on it that you own today predates that sale.<\/p>\n<p>What the company didn\u2019t give up is flash. Samsung is still one of the largest SSD makers in the world, and its consumer and enterprise solid-state drives are among the most widely used anywhere. When someone asks who makes SSDs rather than who makes hard drives, it\u2019s usually the first right answer.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_custom_1793811228402 vc_row-o-equal-height vc_row-flex wpex-relative wpex-vc-has-custom-column-spacing wpex-vc-column-spacing-20 wpex-vc_row-has-fill no-bottom-margins wpex-vc-reset-negative-margin\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div style=\"border-color:#000000!important;\" class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1793812718215\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h3 style=\"text-align: center; color: #f60000;\">SanDisk<\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"color: #f60000;\">Status: Never made hard drives<\/h4>\n<p>SanDisk has been a flash memory company since it opened its doors in 1988: memory cards, card readers, USB flash drives, and SSDs. It has never been a hard disk company, and it has never built a single hard disk drive.<\/p>\n<p>Its corporate history is where most articles go wrong. Western Digital acquired SanDisk in 2016, and for nine years it operated as a WD subsidiary. That ended on February 24, 2025, when the flash business was spun out, and SanDisk went independent again.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div style=\"background-color:#f2f2f200!important;border-color:#000000!important;\" class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1793812726303\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h3 style=\"text-align: center; color: #f60000;\">Kingston Technology<\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"color: #f60000;\">Status: Never made hard drives<\/h4>\n<p>Kingston bills itself as the world\u2019s largest independent manufacturer of memory products, and that\u2019s the best way to think about the company. It builds DRAM modules, flash storage, and solid-state drives. It\u2019s never been one of the hard disk drive suppliers, despite showing up on plenty of hard drive brands and HDD brands roundups.<\/p>\n<p>Its reputation in business environments rests on encrypted USB drives and on data center SSDs built to protect in-flight data when the power cuts out. If security matters more to you than raw capacity, Kingston is a sensible place to look.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_custom_1793811228402 vc_row-o-equal-height vc_row-flex wpex-relative wpex-vc-has-custom-column-spacing wpex-vc-column-spacing-20 wpex-vc_row-has-fill no-bottom-margins wpex-vc-reset-negative-margin\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div style=\"border-color:#000000!important;\" class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1793812735620\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h3 style=\"text-align: center; color: #f60000;\">Crucial (Micron)<\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"color: #f60000;\">Status: Never made hard drives; consumer brand ended in 2026<\/h4>\n<p>Crucial is Micron\u2019s consumer brand, and for years it was one of the easiest recommendations in storage: well-priced DRAM and SSDs straight from one of the few companies that actually fabricates memory.<\/p>\n<p>That changed. On December 3, 2025, Micron announced it was exiting the Crucial consumer business to redirect supply toward data center and AI customers. Consumer shipments continued only through the end of its fiscal second quarter in February 2026. Micron has said it will keep providing warranty service and support for Crucial products.<\/p>\n<p>So your Crucial SSD still works, and it\u2019s still covered by warranty. You just can\u2019t buy a new one at retail anymore. That makes it the most recent name to exit a consumer storage market that keeps getting smaller.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div style=\"background-color:#f2f2f200!important;border-color:#000000!important;\" class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1793812743634\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h3 style=\"text-align: center; color: #f60000;\">Hewlett-Packard (HP)<\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"color: #f60000;\">Status: Left the hard drive business in 1996<\/h4>\n<p>HP is the entry that surprises people. It really was a hard drive manufacturer once, through its Disk Memory Division, and it built some ambitious hardware along the way. The 1.3-inch Kittyhawk drive from 1992 is still a favorite among storage history buffs.<\/p>\n<p>Then in July 1996, HP announced it would stop manufacturing disk-drive mechanisms and close the Disk Memory Division. The company said its share of the disk-drive market had been declining in a very tough environment, and that it would focus instead on extended storage: tape drives, libraries, and recordable CD technology.<\/p>\n<p>HP still sells plenty of storage today, including enterprise arrays and external drives. But the mechanisms inside them come from the three companies at the top of this list.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid wpex-relative no-bottom-margins\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 40px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div><style>.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb802075e46{color:#3e3d3e;font-size:45px;font-weight:400;}@media (max-width:1024px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb802075e46{font-size:30px;}}@media (max-width:959px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb802075e46{font-size:30px;}}@media (max-width:767px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb802075e46{font-size:30px;}}@media (max-width:479px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb802075e46{font-size:30px;}}<\/style><h2 class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl wpex-h2 wpex-text-left vcex_6aeb802075e46\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">Why the Hard Drive Manufacturers List <strong><span style=\"color: #e31f26\">Keeps Shrinking<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 10px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row-o-content-top vc_row-flex wpex-relative no-bottom-margins wpex-cols-right\"><div class=\"wpb_column blog-educational-image vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1739319183592\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>Thirty years ago, this article would have listed dozens of hard disk drive manufacturers. Most of the hard disk companies that defined storage in the 1980s and 1990s don\u2019t exist as independent businesses anymore.<\/p>\n<p>The reason comes down to how difficult these things are to build profitably. A read\/write head flies over a spinning platter at a height measured in nanometers, close enough that a single speck of dust is a catastrophe, and manufacturing to that tolerance takes fabrication plants that cost billions and only pay for themselves at enormous volume. Meanwhile the price per gigabyte fell year after year, and flash memory took the high-margin consumer business away. Companies that couldn\u2019t reach the necessary scale sold their drive divisions to companies that could. HP said more or less exactly that on its way out in 1996, and Micron gave a version of the same answer in 2025 when it redirected Crucial\u2019s supply toward AI demand instead.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_custom_1793812864456 vc_row-o-content-top vc_row-flex wpex-relative no-bottom-margins wpex-cols-right\"><div class=\"wpb_column blog-educational-image vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1739319183592\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 15px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wpb_raw_code wpb_raw_html wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<!-- ===================== HDD Industry Timeline Table ===================== -->\n<!-- Paste this entire block into a WPBakery \"Raw HTML\" element.            -->\n\n<div class=\"hddtl-wrap\">\n  <div class=\"hddtl-table\" id=\"hddtlTable\">\n\n    <!-- HEADER ROW -->\n    <div class=\"hddtl-row hddtl-header-row\">\n      <div class=\"hddtl-cell hddtl-head\">Year<\/div>\n      <div class=\"hddtl-cell hddtl-head\">What happened<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"hddtl-row\">\n      <div class=\"hddtl-cell hddtl-label\">1996<\/div>\n      <div class=\"hddtl-cell hddtl-value\">Seagate acquires Conner Peripherals<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"hddtl-row\">\n      <div class=\"hddtl-cell hddtl-label\">1996<\/div>\n      <div class=\"hddtl-cell hddtl-value\">HP exits the hard drive business<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"hddtl-row\">\n      <div class=\"hddtl-cell hddtl-label\">2001<\/div>\n      <div class=\"hddtl-cell hddtl-value\">Quantum sells its HDD assets to Maxtor<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"hddtl-row\">\n      <div class=\"hddtl-cell hddtl-label\">2003<\/div>\n      <div class=\"hddtl-cell hddtl-value\">IBM sells its HDD assets to Hitachi<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"hddtl-row\">\n      <div class=\"hddtl-cell hddtl-label\">2006<\/div>\n      <div class=\"hddtl-cell hddtl-value\">Seagate acquires Maxtor<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"hddtl-row\">\n      <div class=\"hddtl-cell hddtl-label\">2009<\/div>\n      <div class=\"hddtl-cell hddtl-value\">Fujitsu sells its HDD assets to Toshiba<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"hddtl-row\">\n      <div class=\"hddtl-cell hddtl-label\">2011<\/div>\n      <div class=\"hddtl-cell hddtl-value\">Seagate acquires Samsung\u2019s hard drive division<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"hddtl-row\">\n      <div class=\"hddtl-cell hddtl-label\">2012<\/div>\n      <div class=\"hddtl-cell hddtl-value\">Western Digital completes its acquisition of Hitachi\u2019s HDD business<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"hddtl-row\">\n      <div class=\"hddtl-cell hddtl-label\">2016<\/div>\n      <div class=\"hddtl-cell hddtl-value\">Western Digital acquires SanDisk, moving into flash<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"hddtl-row\">\n      <div class=\"hddtl-cell hddtl-label\">2018<\/div>\n      <div class=\"hddtl-cell hddtl-value\">Western Digital retires the HGST brand<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"hddtl-row\">\n      <div class=\"hddtl-cell hddtl-label\">2025<\/div>\n      <div class=\"hddtl-cell hddtl-value\">Western Digital spins off SanDisk; 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}\n  .hddtl-row:last-child .hddtl-cell { border-bottom: none; }\n\n  \/* Column widths *\/\n  .hddtl-cell:nth-child(1) { width: 15%; }\n  .hddtl-cell:nth-child(2) { width: 85%; }\n\n  .hddtl-label { color: var(--hddtl-label); font-weight: 600; }\n  .hddtl-value { color: var(--hddtl-label); font-weight: 500; }\n\n  .hddtl-head {\n    background: transparent;\n    font-size: 20px;\n    font-weight: 700;\n    color: var(--hddtl-red);\n  }\n<\/style>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row-o-content-top vc_row-flex wpex-relative no-bottom-margins wpex-cols-right\"><div class=\"wpb_column blog-educational-image vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1739319183592\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 20px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div>\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>What\u2019s left is three hard disk drive companies, each of which grew at least partly by buying up the others. It\u2019s a short list, and it isn\u2019t getting any longer.<\/p>\n<p>The split between them is closer than most people assume. The industry shipped an estimated 124.3 million drives in 2025, and the three divided it roughly 42 percent to Western Digital, 41 percent to Seagate, and 17 percent to Toshiba.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all of that manufacturing happens in one part of the world. Thailand is the center of the hard drive industry, with Malaysia and the Philippines close behind, and Seagate\u2019s Thai operations alone account for close to half its global workforce. That concentration is why a flood or a factory disruption in a single region can turn into a worldwide drive shortage.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid wpex-relative no-bottom-margins\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 40px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div><style>.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80207837c{color:#3e3d3e;font-size:45px;font-weight:400;}@media (max-width:1024px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80207837c{font-size:30px;}}@media (max-width:959px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80207837c{font-size:30px;}}@media (max-width:767px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80207837c{font-size:30px;}}@media (max-width:479px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80207837c{font-size:30px;}}<\/style><h2 class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl wpex-h2 wpex-text-left vcex_6aeb80207837c\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">Choosing Among <strong><span style=\"color: #e31f26\">Today\u2019s Hard Drive Suppliers<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 10px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row-o-content-top vc_row-flex wpex-relative no-bottom-margins wpex-cols-right\"><div class=\"wpb_column blog-educational-image vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1739319183592\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>Because only three companies manufacture hard drives, the brand on the label matters less than it used to. Most hard disk drive brands you see on a shelf aren\u2019t hard disk manufacturers at all. They\u2019re buying mechanisms from Seagate, Toshiba, or Western Digital and putting their own enclosure around them. So ask these questions instead:<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 10px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_custom_1793811228402 vc_row-o-equal-height vc_row-flex wpex-relative wpex-vc-has-custom-column-spacing wpex-vc-column-spacing-20 wpex-vc_row-has-fill no-bottom-margins wpex-vc-reset-negative-margin\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-4 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div style=\"border-color:#000000!important;\" class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1793813440551\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><style>.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80207981a{color:#f60000;}<\/style><h3 class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl wpex-h3 wpex-text-center vcex_6aeb80207981a\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">HDD or SSD?<\/span><\/h3>\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>Hard disk drives still win on cost per terabyte at high capacities. SSDs win on speed, noise, and physical durability, though they fail differently and often with less warning.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-4 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div style=\"background-color:#f2f2f200!important;border-color:#000000!important;\" class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1793813450288\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><style>.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80207a333{color:#f60000;}<\/style><h3 class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl wpex-h3 wpex-text-center vcex_6aeb80207a333\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">Internal or external?<\/span><\/h3>\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;letter-spacing:var(--wpex-tracking-tight);\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>An external drive is a standard internal mechanism in a plastic shell. Sometimes the shell or its USB bridge board is what fails while the drive inside is perfectly healthy, which is worth knowing before you assume the worst.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-4 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div style=\"border-color:#000000!important;\" class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1793813640202\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><style>.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80207aeae{color:#f60000;}<\/style><h3 class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl wpex-h3 wpex-text-center vcex_6aeb80207aeae\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">What is the warranty?<\/span><\/h3>\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>Warranty length is the clearest signal hard disk suppliers give about how long they expect a drive to last. Consumer and enterprise lines from the same maker can differ a lot.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_custom_1793814474929 vc_row-o-equal-height vc_row-flex wpex-relative wpex-vc-has-custom-column-spacing wpex-vc-column-spacing-20 wpex-vc_row-has-fill no-bottom-margins wpex-vc-reset-negative-margin\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div style=\"border-color:#000000!important;\" class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1793813932253\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><style>.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80207bc1a{color:#f60000;}<\/style><h3 class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl wpex-h3 wpex-text-center vcex_6aeb80207bc1a\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">Which product line?<\/span><\/h3>\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>A NAS drive, a surveillance drive, and a budget desktop drive from the same manufacturer are built to different standards and rated for different workloads. This matters more than the brand name, and the next section names them.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div style=\"background-color:#f2f2f200!important;border-color:#000000!important;\" class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1793813923426\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><style>.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80207c6d6{color:#f60000;}<\/style><h3 class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl wpex-h3 wpex-text-center vcex_6aeb80207c6d6\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">Is the data backed up?<\/span><\/h3>\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>Every drive on this page will fail eventually. No manufacturer is a substitute for a backup.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid wpex-relative no-bottom-margins\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 30px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div><style>.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80207d596{color:#3e3d3e;font-size:45px;font-weight:400;}@media (max-width:1024px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80207d596{font-size:30px;}}@media (max-width:959px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80207d596{font-size:30px;}}@media (max-width:767px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80207d596{font-size:30px;}}@media (max-width:479px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80207d596{font-size:30px;}}<\/style><h2 class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl wpex-h2 wpex-text-left vcex_6aeb80207d596\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">The Product Lines <strong><span style=\"color: #e31f26\">Worth Knowing<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 10px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row-o-content-top vc_row-flex wpex-relative no-bottom-margins\"><div class=\"wpb_column blog-educational-image vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1739319183592\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>All three hard drive makers sell several families built to very different specifications, and the family name tells you far more than the logo does. A single hard drive maker will sell you a drive meant to run a few hours a day, and another meant to spin continuously in a twenty-four bay array, and the two are not interchangeable.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_custom_1793811228402 vc_row-o-equal-height vc_row-flex wpex-relative wpex-vc-has-custom-column-spacing wpex-vc-column-spacing-20 wpex-vc_row-has-fill no-bottom-margins wpex-vc-reset-negative-margin\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-4 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div style=\"border-color:#000000!important;\" class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1793813440551\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><style>.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80207e8f5{color:#f60000;}<\/style><h3 class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl wpex-h3 wpex-text-center vcex_6aeb80207e8f5\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">Western Digital<\/span><\/h3>\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WD Blue for everyday desktop use, WD Black for gaming and workstations, WD Red Plus and WD Red Pro for NAS, WD Purple for surveillance, and WD Gold and Ultrastar for data centers.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-4 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div style=\"background-color:#f2f2f200!important;border-color:#000000!important;\" class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1793813450288\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><style>.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80207f41f{color:#f60000;}<\/style><h3 class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl wpex-h3 wpex-text-center vcex_6aeb80207f41f\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">Seagate<\/span><\/h3>\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;letter-spacing:var(--wpex-tracking-tight);\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>BarraCuda for desktops, IronWolf and IronWolf Pro for NAS, SkyHawk for surveillance, and Exos for data centers.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-4 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div style=\"border-color:#000000!important;\" class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1793813640202\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><style>.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb80207ff32{color:#f60000;}<\/style><h3 class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl wpex-h3 wpex-text-center vcex_6aeb80207ff32\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">Toshiba<\/span><\/h3>\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>X300 for performance desktops and gaming, N300 for NAS, S300 for surveillance, and the MG series for data centers.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row-o-content-top vc_row-flex wpex-relative no-bottom-margins\"><div class=\"wpb_column blog-educational-image vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1739319183592\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 10px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div>\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>Putting a desktop drive into a NAS, or a surveillance drive into a gaming PC, is a far more common mistake than buying from the wrong manufacturer.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d rather have reliability data than opinion, Backblaze publishes failure statistics every quarter from its own fleet of more than 300,000 drives, broken down by manufacturer and model, and makes the raw data free to download. It\u2019s the closest thing the industry has to a public reliability record. The one caveat is that it measures drives running continuously in a data center, which is harder duty than most drives in a home or office will ever see.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid wpex-relative no-bottom-margins\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 30px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div><style>.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb8020814c2{color:#3e3d3e;font-size:45px;font-weight:400;}@media (max-width:1024px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb8020814c2{font-size:30px;}}@media (max-width:959px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb8020814c2{font-size:30px;}}@media (max-width:767px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb8020814c2{font-size:30px;}}@media (max-width:479px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb8020814c2{font-size:30px;}}<\/style><h2 class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl wpex-h2 wpex-text-left vcex_6aeb8020814c2\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\"><strong><span style=\"color: #e31f26\">Frequently Asked Questions<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 10px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_custom_1793816018737 vc_row-o-content-middle vc_row-flex wpex-relative no-bottom-margins\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_tta-container\" data-vc-action=\"collapseAll\"><div class=\"vc_general vc_tta vc_tta-accordion vc_tta-color-grey vc_tta-style-total vc_tta-shape-rounded vc_tta-o-shape-group vc_tta-controls-align-default vc_tta-o-all-clickable  accord-column vc_custom_1793817245122\"><div class=\"vc_tta-panels-container\"><div class=\"vc_tta-panels\"><div class=\"vc_tta-panel faq-accord-title-post\" id=\"1716890254482-90592e71-20fa\" data-vc-content=\".vc_tta-panel-body\"><div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"vc_tta-panel-title vc_tta-controls-icon-position-right\"><a href=\"#1716890254482-90592e71-20fa\" data-vc-accordion data-vc-container=\".vc_tta-container\"><span class=\"vc_tta-title-text\">Who Makes Hard Drives?<\/span><i class=\"vc_tta-controls-icon vc_tta-controls-icon-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_inner vc_row-fluid wpex-relative no-bottom-margins\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element vc_custom_1793815949958\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>As of 2026, three manufacturers build hard disk drives: Seagate, Toshiba, and Western Digital. Every other brand selling an HDD is reselling a drive made by one of those three.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_tta-panel faq-accord-title-post\" id=\"1716980310195-cf5120dd-63bf\" data-vc-content=\".vc_tta-panel-body\"><div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"vc_tta-panel-title vc_tta-controls-icon-position-right\"><a href=\"#1716980310195-cf5120dd-63bf\" data-vc-accordion data-vc-container=\".vc_tta-container\"><span class=\"vc_tta-title-text\">Which Is the Largest Hard Drive Manufacturer?<\/span><i class=\"vc_tta-controls-icon vc_tta-controls-icon-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_inner vc_row-fluid wpex-relative no-bottom-margins\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element vc_custom_1793815969191\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>Western Digital leads, but only just. Of the roughly 124 million drives shipped in 2025, it accounted for about 42 percent, Seagate about 41 percent, and Toshiba about 17 percent.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_tta-panel faq-accord-title-post\" id=\"1793210861142-08444380-6da6\" data-vc-content=\".vc_tta-panel-body\"><div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"vc_tta-panel-title vc_tta-controls-icon-position-right\"><a href=\"#1793210861142-08444380-6da6\" data-vc-accordion data-vc-container=\".vc_tta-container\"><span class=\"vc_tta-title-text\">Where Are Hard Drives Made?<\/span><i class=\"vc_tta-controls-icon vc_tta-controls-icon-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_inner vc_row-fluid wpex-relative no-bottom-margins\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element vc_custom_1793816040286\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>Almost all of them are built in Southeast Asia. Thailand dominates the industry, with significant operations in Malaysia and the Philippines.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_tta-panel faq-accord-title-post\" id=\"1716892470635-67dc37f4-23f5\" data-vc-content=\".vc_tta-panel-body\"><div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"vc_tta-panel-title vc_tta-controls-icon-position-right\"><a href=\"#1716892470635-67dc37f4-23f5\" data-vc-accordion data-vc-container=\".vc_tta-container\"><span class=\"vc_tta-title-text\">Who Makes SSDs?<\/span><i class=\"vc_tta-controls-icon vc_tta-controls-icon-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_inner vc_row-fluid wpex-relative no-bottom-margins\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element vc_custom_1793816069799\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many more companies make SSDs than make hard drives. Samsung, SanDisk, Kingston, Micron, Seagate, and Western Digital all sell solid-state drives. The flash memory inside them comes from a much smaller group of fabricators, principally Samsung, SK hynix, Kioxia, Micron, and SanDisk.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_tta-panel faq-accord-title-post\" id=\"1716892533584-1defe13c-967c\" data-vc-content=\".vc_tta-panel-body\"><div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"vc_tta-panel-title vc_tta-controls-icon-position-right\"><a href=\"#1716892533584-1defe13c-967c\" data-vc-accordion data-vc-container=\".vc_tta-container\"><span class=\"vc_tta-title-text\">Does HP Still Make Hard Drives?<\/span><i class=\"vc_tta-controls-icon vc_tta-controls-icon-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_inner vc_row-fluid wpex-relative no-bottom-margins\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element vc_custom_1793816116371\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>No, HP stopped manufacturing hard drive mechanisms in 1996. It still sells storage products built around drives from other manufacturers.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_tta-panel faq-accord-title-post\" id=\"1792098174048-b9131f61-8897\" data-vc-content=\".vc_tta-panel-body\"><div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"vc_tta-panel-title vc_tta-controls-icon-position-right\"><a href=\"#1792098174048-b9131f61-8897\" data-vc-accordion data-vc-container=\".vc_tta-container\"><span class=\"vc_tta-title-text\">What Happened to Crucial?<\/span><i class=\"vc_tta-controls-icon vc_tta-controls-icon-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_inner vc_row-fluid wpex-relative no-bottom-margins\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element vc_custom_1793816170160\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>Micron announced in December 2025 that it was exiting the Crucial consumer business, with shipments ending in February 2026. Existing Crucial products remain under warranty support.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_tta-panel faq-accord-title-post\" id=\"1793816172919-c610793d-7a6b\" data-vc-content=\".vc_tta-panel-body\"><div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"vc_tta-panel-title vc_tta-controls-icon-position-right\"><a href=\"#1793816172919-c610793d-7a6b\" data-vc-accordion data-vc-container=\".vc_tta-container\"><span class=\"vc_tta-title-text\">Is Seagate or Western Digital Better?<\/span><i class=\"vc_tta-controls-icon vc_tta-controls-icon-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_inner vc_row-fluid wpex-relative no-bottom-margins\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element vc_custom_1793816227838\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>Neither one is categorically better. Both build drives across a wide quality and price range, so what you actually want to compare is the model you are buying, not the logo on the label. Backblaze\u2019s quarterly drive statistics are the best public source if you want numbers rather than opinions.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_tta-panel faq-accord-title-post\" id=\"1793816237111-239b167e-e707\" data-vc-content=\".vc_tta-panel-body\"><div class=\"vc_tta-panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"vc_tta-panel-title vc_tta-controls-icon-position-right\"><a href=\"#1793816237111-239b167e-e707\" data-vc-accordion data-vc-container=\".vc_tta-container\"><span class=\"vc_tta-title-text\">Are There Any New Hard Drive Manufacturers?<\/span><i class=\"vc_tta-controls-icon vc_tta-controls-icon-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div class=\"vc_tta-panel-body\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_inner vc_row-fluid wpex-relative no-bottom-margins\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element vc_custom_1793816270629\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>No new hard drive companies have entered the market in decades. The cost of building hard disk drives at scale is high enough that the barrier to entry has only risen over time.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 10px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid wpex-relative no-bottom-margins\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 30px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div><style>.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb802086977{color:#3e3d3e;font-size:45px;font-weight:400;}@media (max-width:1024px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb802086977{font-size:30px;}}@media (max-width:959px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb802086977{font-size:30px;}}@media (max-width:767px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb802086977{font-size:30px;}}@media (max-width:479px){.vcex-heading.vcex_6aeb802086977{font-size:30px;}}<\/style><h2 class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl wpex-h2 wpex-text-left vcex_6aeb802086977\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\"><strong><span style=\"color: #e31f26\">When a Drive Fails<\/span><\/strong>, the Manufacturer Is Not the Question<\/span><\/h2><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 10px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row-o-content-top vc_row-flex wpex-relative no-bottom-margins\"><div class=\"wpb_column blog-educational-image vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1739319183592\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>Knowing who makes hard drives helps you buy well. It doesn\u2019t help much at two in the morning when a drive stops mounting, and the only copy of something important is sitting on it.<\/p>\n<p>DriveSavers recovers data from every manufacturer on this list, from current HDDs and SSDs to drives built by companies that don\u2019t exist anymore. If you\u2019re shopping for a replacement because your last drive failed, contact DriveSavers first and find out whether your data is recoverable. Do that before you do anything else with the old drive.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 50px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_custom_1791471549184 wpex-relative wpex-vc_row-has-fill no-bottom-margins wpex-vc-reset-negative-margin\" style=\"border-color:#000000!important;\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12 wpex-vc_col-has-fill\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1760029818507\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div style=\"color:#6f737e;\" class=\"wpb_text_column has-custom-color wpex-child-inherit-color wpb_content_element vc_custom_1793816636439\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Call 24\/7 for a Free Evaluation. 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