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European hard drive? (piefed.social)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
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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€“] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Iโ€™m not aware of any EU companies that actually manufacture drives. Just a few like Synology who rebadge JP made drives.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Yeah, I guess avoiding the US is probably the best I can do here.

    Maybe Verbatim (edit: and Synology) could be a good option - they're Taiwanese, so at least it would somewhat align with my geopolitical positioning. :)

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