[db48x]

At the Internet Archive we occasionally had to return big batches of hard drives because of firmware bugs. That had to have ruined someone’s day, but apparently not enough to actually level up their engineering so that it wouldn’t happen again.

[FirmwareBurner]

Enterprise datacenter customers is a different kettle of fish than accounting making decisions on which fleet of laptops the rank and file get to use.

The former decision is made by engineers, the latter by bean counters.