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. :)

  • PonyOfWar
    13•3 days ago

    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.

    • Tamlyn
      4•3 days ago

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

      • PonyOfWar
        4•3 days ago

        Yes, the company is called Wilk Elektronik and their production facility is in Łaziska Górne, 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.

    • cabbageOPEnglish
      3•3 days 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.