Apple's Time Capsule: is its HDD really 'server grade'?

[edesignuk]

Apple's Time Capsule, which went on sale last week, may not be quite what the Mac maker it is, in the storage department at least.

Time Capsule is Apple's 802.11n Wi-Fi router with an integrated 500GB or 1TB "server-grade hard disk drive", to use Apple's words.

But when one buyer took his TimeCapsule apart, he found his machine contained a Hitachi Deskstar 1TB, a hard drive designed not for servers but for desktop computers:

Reg Hardware.

tsk tsk

 

[Blue Velvet]

Dude... we've been griping about this for days.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/445606/

 

[edesignuk]

Dude... we've been griping about this for days.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/445606/

Balls!

<closes thread, hangs head in shame and wanders off>