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As for OWC -- as they're certainly buying their drives from the major manufacturers (WD, Seagate, etc.), what makes their products such better quality?
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They consistently update their enclosures with the fastest FireWire chipsets available. I've done a head to head comparison between my two Mercury Elite Aluminum drives and my co-worker's Western Digital MyBook drives and the transfer speeds aren't even close. In addition the information on the units sold through OWC is totally transparent...just click on the enclosure and size you're interested in and it will tell which manufacturer's hard drive(s) are inside. Try finding that info through LaCie. I do prefer the models with the Seagate hard drives...they're the only hard drive manufacturer to provide a five year warranty on the drives...all of the rest are only three years.
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How can I tell if something is a "true Terabyte drive" without buying it first? Will the manufacturer say so on its web page or on the box?
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At OWC at least, you only need to look and see if the drive enclosure is listed as RAID 0 or RAID 1. If so, those enclosures will contain two drives. If they aren't listed as RAID, they have only a single hard drive inside. I do prefer the single drive units...I have a 750GB one and a 1TB one. Currently the largest single hard drive you can get in an enclosure is 1TB. If you want more than that (1.5TB, 2TB, etc) you'll have to go with one of the RAID 0 units.