So while browsing this HDD price list, I found out that Newegg sells external hard drives for a cheaper price than the same internal hard drive you’d find in the original external case. Anyone know the logic in this? Yes, more demand, etc, but why would they offer something $30 cheaper and include more, doesn’t seem to make sense…
Seagate Expansion 3TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive (supposedly contains a ST3000DM001)
It’s not newegg’s call anyways. Not like they assemble the shit.
Those desktop drives are usually slower, because they can be.
depending on the enclosure, it could be a massive pain to take the external apart; and even that point you could be screwed because the drive could be damaged (moving parts, etc).
It’s just because of the price they happened to buy them at. And I’ve never seen an enclosure where it was hard to get out the drive, sometimes it’s just snaps, at most it’s some screws. Get one.
[quote=“t4, post:4, topic:443643”]depending on the enclosure, it could be a massive pain to take the external apart; and even that point you could be screwed because the drive could be damaged (moving parts, etc).[/quote]There is usually a normal HDD inside, which means destroying the shell wouldn’t harm the HDD at all unless you are stupid.
well you see, it’s likely that external harddrives sell more than internal ones, so when the manufactures are sending the harddrives off they’ll sell the ones going to external hdds off for cheaper because more people will buy them and it’s likely more stock will sell
[quote=“Speljohan, post:6, topic:443643”][quote author=t4 link=topic=546322.msg4007195#msg4007195 date=1338766807]
depending on the enclosure, it could be a massive pain to take the external apart; and even that point you could be screwed because the drive could be damaged (moving parts, etc).
[/quote]There is usually a normal HDD inside, which means destroying the shell wouldn’t harm the HDD at all unless you are stupid.[/quote]
a lot of modern enclosures i’ve seen are pretty difficult to take apart…