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by danlugo92 1683 days ago
What about OWC?

Are they all repackaged from those 3?

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Do they even pretend to make hard drives? Not in their shop at least: 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.
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.

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.
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.