I did choose it because my boss is an Apple die hard fan and wouldn't let me buy something else. He is not the one who will have to turn off the machine, bring it to the workshop, open it following some google guide....just to replace a failling hard drive.
And when you are inside the machine, which drive was it by the way ? You didn't forget to take note of the serial number of the failling drive ? Did you ?
any noname 1U server has hot-swappable HD bay. You know, this thing that lets you replace a HD with no downtime. And you know what other cool stuff a noname 1U server has 99% of the time ? LIGHTS OUT MANAGEMENT INTERFACE!
My God, how can you call this piece of hardware "server" ? Enough with the hype, Apple is selling hardware to home consumers, leave the professionnals with professionnal hardware and keep your i-stuff out of our way..