[mythtv-users] All the other 1TB HDD bubbles

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:44:35AM -0700, Brian Wood wrote:
> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > It's a bit unusual for Best Buy to have an external drive cheaper than
> > newegg has the raw drive.  And it's a cast iron pain the ass for me to
> > copy that URL out of mutt into Firefox; clearly, BestBuy's web people
> > need to be taken out behind the woodshed.  That page actually *says*
> > it's the 1TB bubble?
> 
> I've often seen external drives cheaper than the bare units. One reason 
> might be that support costs are cheaper: A consumer is less likely to 
> have problems and call for help with an external USB drive than an 
> internal IDE unit.

Oddly, I haven't.  But you're right, and additionally, they're often
1 year warranty drives, I suspect.

> Also, since they usually don't spec the drive inside the case they can 
> throw whatever they have an excess of into a case and sell it, while 
> with a bare drive folks can be picky about what drive it is.

Well, on this point, it's a bit thinner ice: most of the external
drives I do see these days are drive-manufacturer branded...  Those too
may be shorter warranty drives, though.

Does anyone remember who makes that bare-board USB2.0 to 4-EIDE
converter?

Cheers,
-- jra

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