Re: Samsung - why no external drives ?

Previously J. Clarke <jclarke.usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Your argument sounds very reasonable to me. A loose-loose situation
they are quite smart not to get into in the first place.

Arno
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