On Sunday 26 June 2005 18:36, Horst von Brand wrote: > I don't think so. The most expensive part of a disk is the head assembly > and such (witness the prices for different sized disks of similar make and > performance), putting in two makes no sense. It is probably just larger > platters (thus larger casing). I think you're missing the scope of what LaCie does... :-) They do not manufacture harddisks, they make external enclosures using standard disk drives - Last I heard they were using mostly WD... To offer large capacities (their enclosures go up to 2TB) they use an internal controller and several smaller harddisks. Peter.