WD formerly made everything from the silicon in there own wafer fabs to manufacture of complete drives. This was over a decade ago. Now? They probably buy other peoples chipsets. I worked for 'em for over a decade.
I like the idea behind the dual drive externals w/firewire 800 for Mac. When I build one, it'll probably be just a single drive for backup, but if cost were no object.....some kind of Raid5 would be in order.
I know its been a while, but for the last drive I replaced I used an IBM / Hitachi drive which was very quiet.
Thanks to above tips for external enclosures.....I could only find a few firewire models and they didn't appeal.
I like the idea behind the dual drive externals w/firewire 800 for Mac. When I build one, it'll probably be just a single drive for backup, but if cost were no object.....some kind of Raid5 would be in order.
I know its been a while, but for the last drive I replaced I used an IBM / Hitachi drive which was very quiet.
Thanks to above tips for external enclosures.....I could only find a few firewire models and they didn't appeal.