Prices start at $399.00 for the 4TB model, making it the least bang for your buck. The 2big RAID comes in capacities of 4TB, 8TB, and 16TB. Sadly, the truth is that brand name or not, both brands will be manufactured in the very same factory located in either China or Bangladesh.RAID 0: 16 TB, RAID 1: 8 TB, JBOD: 2x 8 TBĨ.5 x 4.7 x 3.7" / 215.9 x 119.4 x 94.0 mm But one will cost more only because of the name it wears. They will be manufactured to virtually the exact same specs and will perform the same. The interesting thing here is that often that higher cost is not always justified by what the product happens to be.Īll you need to do is trace the actual roots of the two items – the brand name one and the knock-off or other lesser known brands. The same basic item exists at both levels but just because there is a well-known (or hyped) brand name attached to the product, the cost is higher. You have your brand name products and you have your knock-off brands. Because they’ve done all the ‘hard work’ you get to enjoy the end result by paying a little more for it.Īnother way to look at this is the world of fashion. The hard drives are the cheese and all LaCie does is stick that into an enclosure – the bread – to offer you the complete sandwich. And, these external hard drives do not differ in any way from the regular external brand name hard drives. In any case, the truth of the matter is that LaCie is nothing more than a ‘premium’ distributor of external hard drives. Where are they predicting the future with Samsung?īut, really? Doesn’t it seem a bit odd to you that the company providing the internal parts for a high-end external drive magically ended up becoming bought out by LaCie? However, the LaCie Porsche edition 500GB line dates back to 2007. Since 2011, Seagate has owned the Samsung hard drive business.
As for why that is, there is a rather logical explanation.
Porsche edition 500GB external hard drive has… wait for it… a 500GB Samsung hard drive inside of it. Well, to save you the time of actually verifying that last statement on your own, let me give you an example to help with the explanation. Why then, do LaCie external drives also have hard drives from their competitors inside? LaCie is nothing more than a subsidiary of Seagate. The transaction was reported at the time to be scheduled to close in 2014. It was Seagate Technology who announced in March 2012 that they would be purchasing LaCie for $186-million. But they will be using Quantum hard drives in those enclosures. Oh, and here’s an interesting tidbit for you…Īs a subsidiary of Quantum, LaCie has been licensed to be the exclusive manufacturer of Apple-branded external SCSI hard drives. This means that if the disk is dropped with or without the rubber extension, a head crash is going to happen regardless. They gave it the wrong name as they just aren’t as rugged as you may be led to believe. While we’re on the topic of enclosures, those Rugged Mini drives, with the Seagate hard drive neatly tucked inside, are not as durable as they say they are. You can buy the cheese and the bread separately or you can buy the sandwich readymade. It’s a little bit like a cheese sandwich. Especially when you consider they literally save you time by packaging your internal drive into an external enclosure. When you look at what the LaCie external drive actually contains, there is no logical reason why it should cost a lot more than any other external drive on the market. So, to answer your question, why are LaCie external drives so much more expensive?
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