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How can you tell if a hard drive is generic or not?

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I'm not sure this question has any actual meaning... to the best of my knowledge, there are no truly "generic" hard drives in the sense of not being any particular brand. You can usually identify the brand pretty easily by looking at the drive to see if it's made by Maxtor or Seagate or Western Digital or whoever.

Some drives are rebranded... that is, they might be made by one company, but bought in bulk and labelled by a different company such as IBM. Such a drive might be "generic" in the sense that IBM might buy drives from several different manufacturers and label them all IBM. I really can't figure out why you would care. Maybe you should ask a more specific question.

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