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

[Paul Zander]

Long ago, I figured out that buying an electronics package was almost always less expensive than buying the individual parts to make it.   And that does not include any value for my time.   There are quantities of scale and inventory costs etc. that come into play.

--- On Sun, 4/12/09, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
Subject: Re: [conspire] curious as to why Seagate would offer a 1.5T external hard drive with only USB 2.0
To: conspire at linuxmafia.com
Date: Sunday, April 12, 2009, 8:45 PM

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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