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Going Deep Inside Xserve Apple Drive Modules

Posted by kdawson on from the stop-thinking-like-a-user dept.

adamengst writes "If you've had an Xserve drive fail, you may have considered saving some money by putting a replacement drive inside its Apple Drive Module. That may be a false economy, though. TidBITS explains why, while pinning Apple down on exactly what goes into Apple Drive Modules and why they cost so much more than bare retail drives."

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  1. Re:Article text by the_B0fh · · Score: 1, Troll

    See, I love people stating as facts things that they have no idea about. Do you work in a hard drive manufacturing facility? Do you work anywhere in the hard drive supply chain? What evidence do you offer that they do no actual testing?

    What a fucking moron.

    And while I'm just another slashdot luser, I do have friends who work in the hard drive manufacturing facilities, and he told me that all the tier-1 vendors do specify additional testing for their server class equipment. In retail consumer (read, best buy, newegg, etc), the manufacturer tests x units out of a thousand. In tier-1 vendors, they test every single unit.

    I don't expect you to believe me. But I do believe my friend over your bullshit.