[SOLVED] What is the capacity of this laptop hard drive?

relztrah

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There are lots of numbers here, but I don't see one that indivcates the GB of this HDD.
 

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I live in the Netherlands, but I have never seen an HDD with the full printed address of HGST (Hitachi) Limburg in the Netherlands..:-)

HOST EUR: LTD / Marie curieweg 20
ROERMOND LIMBURG 6045 GH NETHERLANDS
 
We might not have payed attention to it, but I did some research and it seems that this is mandatory by the EU since 2015.
Also for Seagate and WD disk there is an address on it since 2015.
 
Just looked at 4HDs and 1SSD here from different makers. None had the full mailing address. So yeah, maybe a EU thing.
 
I'm sure it's EU thing. If you look on the Seagate HDD's it's even stated on them:
"European Regulatory Address"

I'm not native English, but I think that means it's obligated.

Didn't see it on disks from 2014 or earlier. Since I do see it on disk from 2015 and newer and this "European Regulatory", it seems obvious that it must be a EU legislation most likely.
No idea what's the benefit of stating the address, but the EU sometimes have some odd rules.
 
No idea what's the benefit of stating the address
I don't either - especially since companies move and change addresses. Those I mentioned above all have their webpages. And those can change too, most at least redirect to the correct place. For example, I have an Maxtor drive here that says www.maxtor.com on it. While Maxtor was acquired by Seagate over 15 years ago, that address still links to support.
the EU sometimes have some odd rules.
Well, they don't have exclusive rights to odd rules.
 
Since I do see it on disk from 2015 and newer and this "European Regulatory", it seems obvious that it must be a EU legislation most likely.
No idea what's the benefit of stating the address, but the EU sometimes have some odd rules.
This is interessting, I just looked at a new WD disk from June last year and it has the full UK address as well, but the UK has left the EU?
 

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