Do Seagate and Western Digital make any drives in the US?
I thought that all their production had moved off-shore?
SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
P.O. Box 309GT
Ugland House, South Church Street
George Town, Grand Cayman
Cayman Islands
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
Telephone: (345) 949-8066
(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)
Seagate is a Cayman Islands company
With the exception of small production plants used mainly for R&D test runs in Colorado, Massachusetts and California, the volume manufacturing for disk drives companies has been for a very long time (since the early 90’s, at least) rotated in places like Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, and more recently in some East European countries like Hungary (IBM-Hitachi).
BTW, Seagate is officially registered in George Town, Cayman Islands - that was done in 2000 when Silver Lake and TPG took Seagate private after spinning off its Veritas division in a complex no-tax for shareholders deal.