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Seagate took over Samsungs HDD department in 2011: https://www.seagate.com/news/news-archive/seagate-completes-aquisition-samsungs-hdd-business-pr/ https://www.

• danlugo92 5y ago
  What about OWC? Are they all repackaged from those 3?
  • thijsvandien 5y ago
    Do they even pretend to make hard drives? Not in their shop at least: https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/3.5-SerialATA https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/3.5-SerialATA. Perhaps they do produce their own SSD's, as do many companies, since that's trivial in comparison. Definitely not hard drives, though.
    • danlugo92 5y ago
      I didn't know SSDs were easier trivial to build compared to HDD, I suspected it for a bit after reading your original comment. So that explains why only 3 companies make HDDs.
      • thijsvandien 5y ago
        SSDs are essentially just some chips (controller, flash memory, and often some DRAM cache) wired together, whereas mechanical drives have many moving parts operating within microscopic tolerances.
        • wmf 5y ago
          For SSDs the hard part is the controller and NAND and there are only a half-dozen companies making those parts. 90% of SSD brands are the same Phison controllers under the hood.