jerryc41 wrote:
I watched an interesting video about prices of external drives vs internal. The guy's point was that external drives - in many cases - are less expensive than bare drives intended for internal use. He couldn't understand why. I knew right away.
He called Seagate and spoke to a very helpful woman for several minutes. In case you didn't know why externals sometimes cost less, here's why. When you buy a bare internal drive, you have lots of choices and lots of specs. You can look at the details and read reviews. When you buy a pretty external drive to put on your desk, you know the capacity and how fast it spins, but not much more. At one time, WD told you what was inside their desktop cases - not anymore. You pay less for an external HDD in a case because it is a lower quality and/or an older drive. If I want an external in a case, I buy the internal drive I want and then buy a separate case.
Take a look at diskprices.com
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Have to STRONGLY agree with you on this point. I also recommend you be careful because buying a faster drive than you can use properly will cost you money and you won't necessarily be able to take advantage of the added speed. Best of luck.