Apple’s proprietary SATA Hard-Drive Power Connector in the 2011 iMac is something new. Apple may have caught vendors like Other World Computing off guard, but it is not unanticipated. Since the introduction of iMac G5 with built-in iSight camera in 2005, it has been a daunting task to replace the hard-drive on this all-in-one computer.
Having a thermal sensor on the hard-drive itself is nice. Would this become an industry standard? Apple does not act alone, at least one hard-drive manufacturer is in on it.
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