No wonder these things cost so much; there's too much manual labor involved. I'd imagine the all of the people involved would be working faster than they were, however their automated verification process seemed to be quite slow and everything at the Runcore facility doesn't make sense. I would have expected an automated system to load the firmware, format the filesystem (which doesn't make sense for a "disk"), run speed test, assemble the unit, and package it. I couldn't believe the guy was manually hooking it to a PC to load the firmware, then put it into a netbook for a speed test, and then back to the PC to clear the test data and load some software. At most I would expect someone to put it into a machine that runs a script to do all of that.
I'm almost certain what we saw wasn't the "actual" everyday work in the factory. Due to the interview video they probably did everything "step by step" and "one at a time", so to speak. For instance, I doubt they only have one employee bagging and tagging SSD's at a time, but it would be unnecessary to video a dozen people doing it.
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No wonder these things cost so much; there's too much manual labor involved. I'd imagine the all of the people involved would be working faster than they were, however their automated verification process seemed to be quite slow and everything at the Runcore facility doesn't make sense. I would have expected an automated system to load the firmware, format the filesystem (which doesn't make sense for a "disk"), run speed test, assemble the unit, and package it. I couldn't believe the guy was manually hooking it to a PC to load the firmware, then put it into a netbook for a speed test, and then back to the PC to clear the test data and load some software. At most I would expect someone to put it into a machine that runs a script to do all of that.
I'm almost certain what we saw wasn't the "actual" everyday work in the factory. Due to the interview video they probably did everything "step by step" and "one at a time", so to speak. For instance, I doubt they only have one employee bagging and tagging SSD's at a time, but it would be unnecessary to video a dozen people doing it.
Just my 3 cents ;)
(inflation)