If you look into any electronics store, you will see many companies offering "their" hard drives. But most of them have never directly produced HDDs that store your data. Let's try to figure out how to find out the real manufacturer.
Take a look at this picture.
These are all well-known HDD "manufacturers". What they all have in common is that they never made hard drives, they only made boxes and stickers for drives.
, HDD : Seagate, WDC, HGST Toshiba:
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HGST (Hitachi), WD, Seagate.
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"ST", ST1000LM035 | 8 | Seagate |
"WD", WD20PURZ | "W", 12 | WDC |
"WD", WD80EFZX | 8 | HGST |
"H" "DT" DT01ACA100 (. ) | 8 | HGST |
"MK", "MQ", "MD" "MG", MQ04ABF100 | Toshiba | |
: "HDWD2" "HDWL" | Toshiba |
This information can be used to determine the current HDD manufacturer, for manufacturers that no longer produce drives, more information will be required. For example, even if the model of your disk is similar to Seagate - ST1000LM024, but the serial number is not 8 characters, then we can say that this is not Seagate, but Samsung.