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Yippee!
Now you can lose even more data when one drive crashes.
"Luckily" you had a recent backup. But-- you shouldn't trust backups to luck, and you shouldn't have needed the backup so soon.
I used to say any manufacturer can have a bad batch but more and more I'm more leery of Seagate.
The idea of 1T HDs is really attractive, but there's no way I'll trust any manufacturer at this point to keep 1T of data on just one of their spindles.
My next HD investment will be in/for two 1T drives and a RAID box of some kind.
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[quote RAMd®d]Yippee!
Now you can lose even more data when one drive crashes.
"Luckily" you had a recent backup. But-- you shouldn't trust backups to luck, and you shouldn't have needed the backup so soon.
I used to say any manufacturer can have a bad batch but more and more I'm more leery of Seagate.
The idea of 1T HDs is really attractive, but there's no way I'll trust any manufacturer at this point to keep 1T of data on just one of their spindles.
My next HD investment will be in/for two 1T drives and a RAID box of some kind.
Tell me about it! Where does the chain end? It seems that these days one needs a backup of the backup's backup and so on and so forth!
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Isn't a refurb hard drive sort of like a refurbished condom?
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[quote pinkoos][quote RAMd®d]
" Where does the chain end? It seems that these days one needs a backup of the backup's backup and so on and so forth!
How true. I use Superduper! to make TWO clones of my iMac each night: "iMac clone" and "iMac Clone2", plus I use TimeMachine on just my user directory to a THIRD hard drive. Belt & suspenders AND a safety net.
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Anyone buying a refurb Mac is essentially buying a refurb hard drive, too.
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I bought a box full of Maxtor SATA drives at an auction last year. There were six 200GB drives, plus a bunch of SCSI drives. I think I paid $150 for the lot. One of the drives was dead, but was still under warranty. Sent it to Seagate/Maxtor, hoping for a silent upgrade. No such luck. They sent me a refurbed 200GB drive. I ended up putting it in a cheap enclosure and selling it.
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[quote incognegro]Anyone buying a refurb Mac is essentially buying a refurb hard drive, too.
Nope.
Apple pulls a new HDD that is pre-loaded and installs that.
Old one goes back to whomever supplied it.
BGnR
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if you have a 4 year old 80 gig drive with a 5 year warranty, do you REALLY want another 80 gig drive back?
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[quote Racer X]if you have a 4 year old 80 gig drive with a 5 year warranty, do you REALLY want another 80 gig drive back?
heck, w/ proper drilling, balancing and mounting, those old 80 giggers ought to make excellent brake shoes for the Buick... B)
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[quote BigGuynRusty][quote incognegro]Anyone buying a refurb Mac is essentially buying a refurb hard drive, too.
Nope.
Apple pulls a new HDD that is pre-loaded and installs that.
Old one goes back to whomever supplied it.
BGnR
you work at Apple assembling refurbs? or know someone who does it?
once again you have no way of backing your blanket assertions.
ANY component in a refurb Mac can also be refurb.
