Toshiba acquired some of Hitachi’s 3.5-inch hard disk drive division in 2012
“To satisfy antitrust regulators, Western Digital then sold some of its 3.5-inch HDD manufacturing assets and intellectual property to Toshiba. This allowed Toshiba to enter the 3.5-inch HDD market for desktop and consumer applications.”
there has been a lot of back and forth funny business between seagate, ibm, hitachi, seagate, toshiba over the years.
I really don’t know. Could be counterfeit/relabeled. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-com…d-criminals-writes-while-they-spill-the-beans