Farming hard drives: how Backblaze weathered the Thailand drive crisis
The fact that external drives that have to be "shucked" of their casing and circuit boards (at what environmental expense?) were cheaper than the same internal drives makes you wonder whether the internal drive prices were realistic.<p>It can't be cheaper to produce the external drives, so the internal drive prices must have been raised above the actual cost to the manufacturers, presumably because the internal drive demand was guaranteed. Consumers might hold off purchasing an external disk if the prices doubled, but Apple aren't going to stop selling Macs because of it.<p>Sometimes capitalism isn't perfect.