[conspire] curious as to why Seagate would offer a 1.5T external hard drive with only USB 2.0

[Darlene Wallach]

$139 for a 1.5T external hard drive in an enclosure seems like it
would be less expensive than buying a 1.5T hard drive and an enclosure
so I was disappointed that the enclosure did not have firewire 400.

You make an excellent point, which is what I did when I purchased a
400G external hard drive and an enclosure with firewire 400, which I
use, and USB 2.0.

Darlene Wallach

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Quoting Darlene Wallach (freepalestin at dslextreme.com):
>
>> Too bad Seagate doesn't offer an enclosure with choices. Are they just
>> keeping costs down?
>
> Sounds like it.
>
> Personally, I'd think it would be better overall to buy a hard drive
> without enclosure and put it into the enclosure of your choice, bought
> separately.  After all, when you buy an "external" hard drive, all
> you're getting is a bundle of an ordinary, generic hard drive with some
> middle manager's choice of enclosure.
>
> Don't expect it to make a lot of sense.  It's merchansing.
>
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