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Updated Time Capsule opened, server-grade hard drive nowhere to be found

Well, the remarkable thing here is that Apple's TC spec states:

Storage
2TB or 3TB Serial ATA server-grade hard disk drive​

There is nothing "server-grade" about WD "Caviar Green" drives.
 
Does anyone know why they would use a 3.5" desktop sized hard drive as opposed to a 2.5" laptop sized drive? Wouldn't they want to make the device as small as possible?
 
It certainly looks like a false statement.

It's fair enough when they word things carefully that might be interpreted to be what people 'want' to hear. Maybe that's what they're doing here - perhaps we are understanding this to mean an 'enterprise' grade drive such as the WD RE4.

I assume the hard drives in the Mac Mini Server are 2.5" drives - and no doubt they're not enterprise grade drives.

Even if the statement might not be legally wrong, it's certainly very misleading. I wonder what Apple would consider a non-server grade drive to be?
 
gramirez2012 said:
Does anyone know why they would use a 3.5" desktop sized hard drive as opposed to a 2.5" laptop sized drive? Wouldn't they want to make the device as small as possible?
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Because 3.5" drives come in 2TB and 3TB size, while 2.5" drives max out at 1TB. The Mac Mini server uses two 500GB 2.5" drives for 1TB of storage.

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So in reading everything - does the new Time Capsules have the upgraded radios of the AEBS? Something tells me maybe not?
 
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