Jan Brittenson
Senior Subscriber Member
Yeah, I think so.Jan:
I have no idea what you just wrote means, but is it safe to assume that if Apple sold me a Seagate 7200.10 drive originally, that if I put in a newer generation 7200.11 i will have that capability?
I used to work at Sun Microsystems, both with kernel group (although I'm a network stack guy) and later with the storage division with digital broadcasting and streaming systems - intended to drive storage sales. (The products were later sold off to Toshiba.) This was in the mid 90s, but we too shipped "crappy" old drives in our workstations, not because we wanted to immensely mark them up, but in part because each new model took forever to qualify, and in part because of volume commitments with the drive vendor. The two worked together - we'd sign up for volume commitments because we knew we wouldn't qualify something new too soon, and there was no point testing new hardware until we reached the end of the contract. I bet Apple goes through exactly the same.
That said, qualification wasn't always a slamdunk...