This is entirely correct. The units come preinstalled with v1.02. However, it didn't support the tuner module correctly, so v1.03 (which does) is packaged with the module.

ISTR that the only changes in v1.03 were for the tuner, so v1.02 is fine. However, if you do phone support with a problem with v1.02, they'll tell you to try it with v1.03, so you may as well upgrade anyway.

v2.0, on the other hand, is in beta, so it's probably still fairly flakey in some areas.

As for the hard-disks, we use IBM and Fujitsu disks.