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Old 28-11-2007, 12:07 AM
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MacBook (Seagate) HDD fault acknowledged
Seagate and Apple have acknowledged a fault with the aforementioned manufacturers drives. See the following article for details:

Apple acknowledges some MacBook hard drive problems.
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Old 28-11-2007, 12:15 AM
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Good to see that they've acknowledged it. If anyone's curious, they seem to have changed vendors - i don't know about others, but my MacBook, ordered 2 weeks ago, which arrived last Friday, came with a Fujitsu installed. *breathes sigh of relief*
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Old 28-11-2007, 12:56 AM
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My macbook pro from june features a fujitsu drive.

Good to see apple admitting there's a problem with the drives, seagate too :P
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Old 28-11-2007, 06:23 AM
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Good to see that they've acknowledged it. If anyone's curious, they seem to have changed vendors - i don't know about others, but my MacBook, ordered 2 weeks ago, which arrived last Friday, came with a Fujitsu installed. *breathes sigh of relief*
my MB 2.2 SR - purchased 6Nov07 - has a Seagate drive but not of the affected model # nor firmware revision # - & it runs fast silent and cool.

no probs so far.

I back up weekly to the old eMac to be sure to be sure.
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Old 28-11-2007, 07:38 AM
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What a crap title to that blog!

The first line says very clearly, that they haven't acknowledged it, they are just looking into it. Further down, it says an email asking for confirmation from Apple was not returned!

I've only just woken up, so forgive me if I've missed something, but this looks like sensationalist crap designed to drive traffic to someone's blog!
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Old 28-11-2007, 07:54 AM
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What a crap title to that blog!

The first line says very clearly, that they haven't acknowledged it, they are just looking into it. Further down, it says an email asking for confirmation from Apple was not returned!

I've only just woken up, so forgive me if I've missed something, but this looks like sensationalist crap designed to drive traffic to someone's blog!
hmmmmm - interesting perspective
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Old 29-12-2007, 03:15 PM
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Sorry to dig up an old thread, but today my hard drive (Seagate Momentus 5400.3/160GB) died on me, and I've had to replace it with the original that came with my MacBook.

Funnily enough, it is a Seagate Momentus 5400.2/60GB drive, with this particular serial and firmware/revision (7.01). I am hoping this drive won't fail on me... otherwise I'm going to buy another replacement drive, for the replacement drive!
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Old 29-12-2007, 05:56 PM
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Sorry to dig up an old thread, but today my hard drive (Seagate Momentus 5400.3/160GB) died on me, and I've had to replace it with the original that came with my MacBook.

Funnily enough, it is a Seagate Momentus 5400.2/60GB drive, with this particular serial and firmware/revision (7.01). I am hoping this drive won't fail on me... otherwise I'm going to buy another replacement drive, for the replacement drive!
if you have to replace that then go for the mentus 7200rpm - they fly and run quite cool.
whilst there seems to be debate about Apple selecting solely the most cost effective brand for their notebooks (which is true), they are also second-to-none when it comes to quality control. Thus they would not select a brand that if sub-standard.

that said - the odd batch do slip thru the matrix from time to time.

never had a prob with Seagate before either in notebooks or desktop system.

my favored brand is still Hitachi - usually the dearer - but these days the $ factor rules
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