That's what I thought, but the general consensus is that it was OEM'd by LaCie. I've never seen it stated as fact.

Maybe Apple supplied them with the drives. I work for a medical device manufacturer. There's some products that we sell that we don't make in house. We OEM them out to other vendors, but we receive in all the materials, inspect them from the suppliers, and then send them to the OEM manufacturer to build. We even send them the boxes and manuals to package them.