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Can a manufacturer specify more or less than 2 data storage devices for test configurations, as permitted in the ETSI EN 303 470 Standard?

In the case of servers declared as being part of a server product family, can a manufacturer specify more or less than 2 data storage devices for test configurations, as permitted in the ETSI EN 303 470 Standard?

For the purposes of the regulation, in the case of servers declared as being part of a server product family, Annex IV.1 to the Regulation foresees that the Member State authorities can test the low-end performance configuration or the high-end performance configuration. As per definitions 21 and 22 of Annex I, these configurations always must contain (only) two data storage devices. Manufacturers will then sell a full range of (server) configurations within a server product family which may have more or fewer components than the two ‘designated’ configurations, i.e. the low-end performance configuration and the high-end performance configuration.

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