It makes no sense to me. Often it's the same model of drive, same capacity... but the external version will always be cheaper, sometimes considerably so. $10-$50 cheaper. It makes no sense, as with an external drive they now have to produce the same amount of product as the internal and now they have extra costs stacked on top of it for the enclosure, its screws, power supply, cable and box, whereas with an internal they can just ship a drive by itself out in a static-free bag.
I thought they started doing this a few years back with the transition to 3 TB drives to discourage noobs from picking up internals >2 TB and being unable to get their PCs to read them, but we should be well past that phase now. What possible reason are they still doing this?
I thought they started doing this a few years back with the transition to 3 TB drives to discourage noobs from picking up internals >2 TB and being unable to get their PCs to read them, but we should be well past that phase now. What possible reason are they still doing this?