Crappy Mac Hard Drives
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- unknown
I've had my G4 now for a year and a month. It has two 80 gig ATA hard drives in it, both of which have gone bad now.
2 weeks after the year warranty was up my secondary hard drive crashed for the fifth time, and i took it in and had it replaced. Never had a problem with the main hard drive that had the operating system on it, until the other night. One month after I had the other HD replaced the main one crashes twice, and after the second crash it wouldn't let me reboot from the system disk, Nortons Utilities or Disk Warrior!
What the hell?!! What are the chances of having 2 bad hard drives in the same machine?
Do these ATA Drives completely suck or is it just bad luck?!
Is it OS X being a bitch?! Anyone else have any problems like this with their Mac or ATA HD's?
It's almost enough to make me want to switch...
to a PC!!!! :(
- unknown0
anyone? answer me damn it!
- pascii0
i had no hardware crash but 2 weeks ago i had a kernel-panic from out of nowhere and i couldn't not boot my computer again. i lost all of my data and had no bkp.
i keep my ears open 'cause i'm curious if others had the same problems,
and
os X sucks big time
- Inokun0
Had the same problem, but I am still on OS 9 (My company never upgraded)...hard drive failed no back up...the end
Ino
- unknown0
hey pascii, I had a Kernal panic two days ago, 1 day before the first bad crash.
Damn this pisses me off!
- kerus0
Apple doesn't make hard drives.
- unknown0
I realize this, they are Seagate, I was just wondering if it was some funky bad interaction with OS X.
- gdiddy0
Fellas...
I just had a 1 year old Western Digital 40 gig bite the dust yesterday. Not a mac specific hard drive. Yet my four year old SCSI internal 8 gig is still running like a champ.
It's not OS X, its not OS 9, not even windows XP.
Shit breaks. Hard drives fail.
Life sucks. Get used to it.
- clique0
Yep. Same here. We bought 3 new machines and 2 out of the 3 hard disks died in the buggers.
- unknown0
how can these damn HD manufacturers make a profit when their shit constantly breaks?!
friggin computers! :(
- pascii0
pixelfrog, i back up all my stuff now daily with the carbon copy cloner:
http://www.bombich.com/software/…
and i perform daily a filesystemcheck
"How to Use fsck From the Command LineOnce you have reached a command line, follow these steps to use fsck:1. Type the following at the # prompt: fsck -y2. Press Return.The fsck utility will go through five "phases" and then return information about the disk'sutilization and fragmentation. If fsck alters, repairs, or fixes anything, it will display themessage:***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****Important: If this message appears, repeat the "fsck -y" command until this message nolonger appears. It is normal for your computer to require several "passes" of fsck, becausefirst-pass repairs may uncover additional errors.3. When fsck reports that no problems were found, type the following command at the #prompt: reboot4. Press Return.The computer should start up normally and allow you to log in. "
- pascii0
the next step will be to hang garlic on my mac....
- InVivio0
simple, it's called 'design for obsolescense'. Why would they make a hard drive to last ten years? probably the same reason they don't make cars that last ten years anymore.
- loosepiggy0
Had Macs for the last decade. never any hard drive problems. It's called bad luck.
OS 10.2 is actually very stable and the best OS I have ever worked on. You just need time to get used to it and learn the ins and outs. try reading OS X: The Missing Manual
- unknown0
yeah InVivo I can see why they want to do that, but shit, 1 year is simply not long enough for a HD to last.
I literally just finished paying that bitch off to! Sent my last check in about 2 weeks ago. grrrrrrrr
- pascii0
i hope i will accept X the next time. i haden't time to play arount with it enough. but i'll never _switch_
???
- unknown0
Wow, well you have really good luck then and i have terrible computer luck. My old power computing clone used to crash every once in awhile to, nothing that nortons couldn't solve though. Nortons doesn't seem to be much help for OS X however.
Thanks pascii, but unfortunately I don't know enough about all that command line stuff. I took it into the Apple store for them to deal with and replace the HD, instead of just trying to fix it.
- Creon0
my g4 is 3 years old. my 18gb scsi drive is goin strong..never had a problem. i also have 2x30gb western digital firewire externals. they are alright. one has a red light on constantly now..is this a sign? i can still access it and write, just a damn light on. thoughts?