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From: "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Why are external drives cheaper than internal?
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 07:14:58 +1000
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"Mark Perkins" <mark@none.invalid> wrote in message 
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> On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 20:27:23 +0000 (UTC), Roger Blake
> <rogblake@iname.invalid> wrote:
>
>>On 2015-09-10, Mark F <mark53916@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm sure there are some examples of the same drive being cheaper
>>> when buying in an external case, but many times:
>>> ...
>>
>>I've found a few instances where with an external drive, the drive itself
>>had a USB interface instead of SATA. (Don't know how common that is but
>>I have seen it.)
>
> I've never heard of such a beast.

There are some around.

> If you run across an example, please post a link. Thanks.