WHY are external 3TB drives are $129, internal $189?
 

Whyt he fuck would an external 3TB drive cost only $129 at a shit hole retail place like Bestbuy, but I can't find a decent internal 3TB drive online for less than $180?? only cheap internal 3tb are that "green" bullshit drives that are slow as ballz.

i am not liking the HUGE drives, mine seem to want to take 5-8 seconds to get going after i click on one, even the one with lots o space left on it

Probably, like most other products...manufacturing MORE of them drives costs down...

or the external drive is of shittier quality

Hey be glad you can get 3 TB for under $200 now-a-days

http://www.rustylime.com/media/image...hard_drive.jpg

Agree....

here's a 2tb , internal for $75
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...u=TSD-2000EARS

and here's a 3tb, internal for $129
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...&sku=H450-9008

Bought one, had to replace it three times in a year :disgust

it's a 5400 RPM drive, worthless. :error

Yeah, why I put everything on an external, works great

Because the external can be churned out in larger lots than the internal which have to be specifically made in certain sizes (dimensions) and use different connectors.

Lol same image was used in one informatics magazine on test of 3 tb drives :)

Was having the same problem, fixed it by preventing the drives from spinning down in the power management settings.

i will give this a try, thanks!:thumbsup

It's also what's inside the external case, hence answering your initial question.

Since the external drives are more popular at retail, I often buy them and open them up when I need an internal drive. That leaves me about six external cases laying around for when I need to hook one up externally.

Of the 44 or so internal drives I currently have spinning, maybe six or eight were purchased as external and I took the internal drive out of the USB enclosure.

Don't buy cheap, get hitaci. Unplug the real backup drive when not in use.

There mean't for storage only, if your using it as a main operating system drive, your crazy. Get yourself a 1Gb 10,000 RPM drive for your main drive.

I have a 2TB drive that I use for all my backups, and other than the slight 2-5 second delay when accessing something from those drives, there hasn't been any problems, and quite frankly, the price can't be beat.

There's more to hard drives than storage capacity.