[Swordmaker]

Apple’s extortion for spare drive caddies ($300) was criminal.

Yeah, I remember that... that was in the sugarwater salesman days... and they had so many different models of Macs (over 40, as I recall) and 140 configurations that they were hard to keep straight...

[Dr. Sivana]

that was in the sugarwater salesman days

Assuming you mean Sculley, no. This was in 2009. We had the original xServe and wanted to add capacity (all PATA). The caddies cost $300 each to fill out the case or to have easy to use spares.