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Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Chad Dewey <[email protected]> wrote: > From a Seagate engineer: > > *They can be the same drive design but a lot of the external drives are > early units with relaxed specs for error rates usually and can be > waterfalled (by this I mean design capacity is higher but could not meet > the OEM specs or full capacity during testing, helps with thruput yields) > from higher capacities. The basic reliability should be very similar if > the design point is the same. External 3TB's or any capacity point may > vary from box to box may have multiple different drive designs types which > meet the capacity but can vary by performance and capability. This is true > for internals to a lesser degree. Drives that go to retail (Bestbuy > etc....) have the lowest reliabilty specs to ship with OEM's being the > toughest. I should also state that internals typically have tougher vibe > and temperature specs with higher duty cycle life expectations, a lot of > externals are merely back up hence the lower quality requirements.* > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Rory Conaway <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *That One Guy >> /sarcasm >> *Sent:* Thursday, April 02, 2015 8:24 AM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *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 <[email protected]> >> 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 <[email protected]> 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. >> > >
