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Storage hard drives (Seagate, WD, Toshiba)
Fremont, United States37.55°N 121.99°W
computed criticality10/100
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Only 3 surviving HDD makers: Seagate, Western Digital, Toshiba
2024Fault line
Datacenter mass storage (cloud, archives, AI) still rests on hard drives that only three groups make, a near-oligopoly assembled mostly in Thailand, exposed to floods as in 2011.
Actors
Seagate
Western Digital
Toshiba
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