12-19-2024, 12:25 PM
RAM,
I concur. I have several external drives including the last Western Digital model I'll ever purchase and a couple of Seagate models (two of which have USB 3 hubs built into them) that are in plastic enclosures that lack fans and on/off switches. Can't say I like the designs. However, to give credit where it is due, I've yet to have any of them fail. Even have some plastic USB 3 enclosures designed for 3.5" drives from Hitachi that I got on the cheap. They've been fine, too.
However, when looking at drives, if I compare them to the La Cie D2 external drive, they aren't in the same class. The mechanism inside the LaCie might be a Western Digital or a Seagate (or whoever is the current OEM for them) but the enclosure blows the doors off the competitors. Just like the better G-Drive and OWC enclosures are superior to them in many respects.
Robert
I concur. I have several external drives including the last Western Digital model I'll ever purchase and a couple of Seagate models (two of which have USB 3 hubs built into them) that are in plastic enclosures that lack fans and on/off switches. Can't say I like the designs. However, to give credit where it is due, I've yet to have any of them fail. Even have some plastic USB 3 enclosures designed for 3.5" drives from Hitachi that I got on the cheap. They've been fine, too.
However, when looking at drives, if I compare them to the La Cie D2 external drive, they aren't in the same class. The mechanism inside the LaCie might be a Western Digital or a Seagate (or whoever is the current OEM for them) but the enclosure blows the doors off the competitors. Just like the better G-Drive and OWC enclosures are superior to them in many respects.
Robert