Apple Looking Into MacBook Hard Drive Issues

Apple Looking Into MacBook Hard Drive Issues

Daniel Fleshbourne on 28 November 2007 - 10:38 · 15 comments & 10159 views

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Although it doesn't appear to be a widespread problem, Apple said it has "received a few reports that some MacBook consumer notebooks may have hard drive issues, and we're looking into it." Apple didn't say which drives could be affected, but UK-based Retrodata reported earlier this year that Seagate 2.5-inch drives with firmware revision 7.01 are causing potential data loss.

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(2 replies) #1 jgrodri on 28 Nov 2007 - 13:15

I´ve got one of the supposedly faullty drives... my mac has been working for over thirteen months now and it has had a bumoy ride, yet i am still to have any problems with my drive.
Still, free replacements are always welcome

#1.1 +Blaine on 28 Nov 2007 - 14:03

Yeah same here. It does worry me now though that it could crash at any moment.

#1.2 ajua on 28 Nov 2007 - 15:02

just make backups as often as you can.

(5 replies) #2 RAID 0 on 28 Nov 2007 - 16:09

Seagate sucks. They've always sucked.

#2.1 bluarash on 28 Nov 2007 - 20:40

Funny, I've never really had a problem with the actually drives. It might be that the Maxtor drives with the Seagate label are giving people problems (i.e. the cheapo hardware).

#2.2 ANova on 29 Nov 2007 - 00:49

Quote - (bluarash said @ #2.1)

Funny, I've never really had a problem with the actually drives. It might be that the Maxtor drives with the Seagate label are giving people problems (i.e. the cheapo hardware).

There are no Maxtor drives with Seagate labels. Seagate bought Maxtor but offer both original Seagate branded drives and Maxtor branded drives. I've never had a problem with either and I have 6 drives of both labels.

#2.3 Croquant on 29 Nov 2007 - 06:13

Seagate is actually a brand that I prefer to buy. Never had a problem with their drives, and they are always very competitive with the other HDD players in the market.

#2.4 whocares78 on 29 Nov 2007 - 07:41

i agree with croquant, seagate is good, maxtor well there a whole nother drive which i dont like

#2.5 RAID 0 on 29 Nov 2007 - 08:30

I'm a Western Digital fan. Not Microsoft, not Apple, not Asus or MSI... WD. That's the ONLY hardware I pick all the time. All my friends computer seem to be doing fine after all these years.

#3 zackiv31 on 28 Nov 2007 - 23:40

Lol... I'm currently staring at one of the faulty drives... Seagate 7.01fw

And it's DEAD.. all of a sudden, loud click clank and after a couple seconds drive dies.

#4 PatrynXX on 29 Nov 2007 - 00:15

Maybe that's why someone in mcse class (oh the there's like at least 3-4 Apple fans in this microsoft class) ordered their macbook pro and it arrived yesterday and has a Fuji hard drive inside.

(2 replies) #5 whocares78 on 29 Nov 2007 - 07:43

yet more problmes with macs, well at least i havent heard 'it justy works' for a while, i guess some fanboys have come to their senses

#5.1 +kraized on 29 Nov 2007 - 08:43

Quote - (whocares78 said @ #5)

yet more problmes with macs, well at least i havent heard 'it justy works' for a while, i guess some fanboys have come to their senses

#5.2 LTD on 29 Nov 2007 - 08:53

Quote - (whocares78 said @ #5)

yet more problmes with macs, well at least i havent heard 'it justy works' for a while, i guess some fanboys have come to their senses

THey DO "just work." At least more often than the competition

But no one said they're perfect. Machines are machines.

Check the customer satisfaction ratings. Apple still ranks highest in the industry. It has to tackle production challenges brought on by greater demand, etc.

Thanks for playing, though.

http://www.marketingvox.com/archives/2007/...ple-and-google/

#6 zackiv31 on 29 Nov 2007 - 22:41

Greater demand? What percentage of computers in the world are Macs?

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