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I recently cancelled my Dropbox subscription, and will now be running local backups instead. For that purpose I need an external hard drive.

It seems most companies (Western Digital, Kingston, Seagate) are American, with Japanese Toshiba occasionally showing up in my search results.

Does anyone know of/have any experience with European storage manufacturers? If not I guess Toshiba will have to do. :)

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[โ€“] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don't think there are any European companies manufacturing HDDs themselves. Some, for example German Intenso, sell HDDs under their name, but the actual manufacturer will be a different one. For SSDs, there's Swissbit and Goodram.

[โ€“] tamlyn@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Does anyone know who produces the HDDs and SSDs for Intenso? But good to know Swissbit and Goodram are european.

[โ€“] cabbage@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

Thanks! I'm not entirely set on whether I'll get HDD or SSD (I only need a couple of TB), so I'll check them out.

[โ€“] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does Goodram really produce in Europe? I highly doubt that...

[โ€“] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yes, the company is called Wilk Elektronik and their production facility is in ลaziska Gรณrne, Poland, which they've also recently expanded to focus on more products aside from RAM modules. Not every single component in their SSDs will come from Europe, but the final production is European.

[โ€“] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Wow, good to hear that!