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I wonder if they are lesser quality or worse specs. External hard drives often don't even show the performance characteristics other than capacity on the boxes.
by climb_stealth 7y ago
I wonder if they are lesser quality or worse specs. External hard drives often don't even show the performance characteristics other than capacity on the boxes. This is different for internal drives from what I recall.
- MacsHeadroom 7y agoIt's actually the opposite. External hard drives are frequently made from over production of enterprise grade hard disks. [1] Manufacturers would rather over produce high quality drives than risk not being able to fulfill orders. Eventually the surplus gets put in an external housing and rebranded for consumer use. 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/7fx0i0/wd_easystore_8tb_compendium/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/7fx0i0/wd_easy...
- jjeaff 7y agoI do a lot of shucking of external hard drives and I have never come across a 7200rpm drive. They are always 5400. But they are sometimes the higher quality drives in that speed range.