Good point. There could also be some short-cutting on the thermal/utilization level. For example, a lot of people tried to use the use the 30GB hard drives in the Apple iPods as computer drives and they would fail very quickly. They weren’t designed for a lot of head movements.
Rory From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of That One Guy /sarcasm Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 8:24 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Why are External Hard Drives so Cheap? yeah, it just matters the drive inside the enclosure as far as the price goes. Cheap, slow drives since its USB or ethernet connecting them on a consumer scale, half the PCs are still 10/100 or usb2.0, or in their home wifi network doing little more than moving one file at a time. For whatever reason, most of the USB drives Ive opened have seagate laptop drives in them, Ive never been a seagate fan because they used to have such a high failure rate. Probably doesnt matter though since theyre probably all being made in the same factory by only the finest 12 year old taiwaneese craftsman On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Caleb Knauer <cknauer.li...@gmail.com<mailto:cknauer.li...@gmail.com>> wrote: I think the internal drives are typically slower and with less cache but I've done no research lately so this opinion is worth little. On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Nate Burke <n...@blastcomm.com<mailto:n...@blastcomm.com>> wrote: > Why does it seem like the $/Gig are way less on external drives than > internal drives? Aren't they basically a regular hard drive in an > enclosure? > > Best Buy has a 3tb External Drive with Ethernet (they call it a NAS) for > $80, Cheapest price for a 3tb Internal Drive on Amazon is $85 > > 4tb External Drives are $90, Amazon has Internals for $130 -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
