More MacBook Pro Hard Drive Drama?

Remember when it came out that Apple’s new notebooks were running SATA at 1.5Gbps, instead of the 3.0 standard? Well, Apple released a firmware update to address the issue, but it looks like the update is causing issues with third-party hard drives. Gizmodo points to this thread on Apple’s discussion boards, full of posts complaining of problems.

Surely this was simply a mistake on Apple’s part.* One they need to fix immediately. Leaving users without hard drives isn’t good - especially owners of brand-new notebooks, as this only affects the Mid-2009 models.

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*The thought of Apple doing this to limit users to Apple-branded drives

makes me shudder.