On Sunday 26 June 2005 18:36, Horst von Brand wrote:
I don't think so. The most expensive part of a disk is the head
assembly
and such (witness the prices for different sized disks of similar make and
performance), putting in two makes no sense. It is probably just larger
platters (thus larger casing).
I think you're missing the scope of what LaCie
does... :-)
They do not manufacture harddisks, they make external enclosures using
standard disk drives - Last I heard they were using mostly WD...
To offer large capacities (their enclosures go up to 2TB) they use an internal
controller and several smaller harddisks.
Peter.