Hard drive madness...

[truffle00]

I was looking into some of the larger hard drives earlier and came upon this:

Bare drive.
Drive in enclosure.

Presumably, the hard drive in the enclosure is an IDE drive, but is there any other difference to justify the $35 + price of enclosure premium? I'm a bit confused, but would rather get the SATA drive and so I wouldn't want to just rip the IDE drive out of the enclosure.

 

[draksia]

Seagate has like most every other hard drive manufacture charged more for their SATA drives then there IDE ones.

Newegg list the 400 GB IDE for only $260 but it is currently out of stock. So you are paying a $70 premium to get an external enclosure.