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by cr0sh 2393 days ago
My best guess would be that more people buy external drives than internal, and those that "manufacture" external drives (ie - buy internal drives and repackage them) purchase in larger volumes than those that sell bare internal drives.

Of course, that wouldn't explain the difference between a WD external drive and that same drive as an internal drive - assuming that WD actually manufactures both (and doesn't just license the name provided the 3rd party uses their drives)...