Re: Samsung - why no external drives ?

shopping wrote:

>
> i know i can put one in an enclosure myself but i thought it was a
> suprising omission from their product range
>
> if this type of product causes lots of end-user support as you say
> maybe thats the main factor

Might also be an issue with establishing a reputation--you can make an
external enclosure big and noisy with good cooling and shock mounting or
cheap and quiet with no cooling or shock mounting--if you do the former you
have trouble competing with the smaller cheaper products without cooling or
shock protection while if you do the latter you get a reputation for making
unreliable drives because the enclosures are cooking them or they're
getting dropped or both.

> "J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:dot7to131k7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> shopping wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Yes - i could email the CEO but it is a suprising omission from their
>>> range ?
>>
>> Hardly. "External" drives are just "internal" drives in a box. Any
>> moron
>> can put a drive in a box these days. I suspect that Samsung just doesn't
>> want to be bothered with the end-user support that such devices entail.
>>
>> --
>> --John
>> to email, dial "usenet" and validate
>> (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

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