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Seagate 2.5-inch Hard Drive Flaw Affecting MacBooks?

Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:39 am
by froggyboy604
Retrodata, a data-recovery company, has just issued a warning for Apple MacBook owners with Seagate hard drives that were manufactured in China and have a firmware version of 7.01. Apparently these have a fatal flow that cause their read/write heads to fail mechanically, scratching up the hard drive surface as pictured and making data unrecoverable (even by professionals such as themselves). If you've got a MacBook, you should check to see if your internal drive is a Seagate and back up your data accordingly. There's no official word yet from Apple on whether or not this actually a problem, but better safe than crying over lost nudie photos. [Retrodata - Thanks Eric!]
S: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/warning/seag ... 316350.php

man, that sucks.

Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:46 am
by SetoTK
what no thats not seagate hard drives that an inferior operating system and poor manufacturing on the part of apple