House brand--what does that mean?

[mondoMondo]

Searching for deals on HD's and keep coming up against "house brand" and "white label" and "generic" hard drives from places like goharddriveDOTcom.

Can't really get a straight answer about who makes these drives.

Maybe I'm picky but I've had such rotten luck with certain brands--won't name names but their initials are WD--that I'd like to stick to brands I love like seagate.

Advise me maestros.

Thx,
m

 

[daswilhelm]

probably should buy a name brand drive if you have had bad luck in the past

 

[dudewitbow]

WD is western digital. House brand(home brand) in shopping usually means that the item you are buying is made from the store itself. I dont think any retailers make their own HDDs. as of right now, there are 2 major HDD makers, WD or western digital(who merged with Hitachi) and Seagate (who merged with samsung HDD line)

 

[mondoMondo]

keep gettin' dunned to pick a best answer and frankly there ain't one. das's prob'ly the best advice but there was still no answer as to what "white label" means. Love verbalizer's hit: "white label" means white label. Take that one to the bank.