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Technical News & Discussion => Apple News & Discussion => Topic started by: Gary on Jul 23, 2011, 10:34:17

Title: iMac hard drive replacement program
Post by: Gary on Jul 23, 2011, 10:34:17
Apple has determined that a very small number of Seagate 1TB hard drives used in 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMac systems, may fail under certain conditions. These systems were sold between May 2011 and July 2011.

Check here http://www.apple.com/support/imac-harddrive/?cid=CDM-US-DM-DBRF10018&cp=em--&sr=em
Title: Re: iMac hard drive replacement program
Post by: Rik on Jul 23, 2011, 10:37:44
 :thumb: Not that it affects me, of course.
Title: Re: iMac hard drive replacement program
Post by: Gary on Jul 23, 2011, 10:49:56
Quote from: Rik on Jul 23, 2011, 10:37:44
:thumb: Not that it affects me, of course.
Nor me thankfully even though I have a Seagate in my new iMac its not a recall model, still waiting to here about this dust issue with mine, not impressed with the quality control, issues, but CS has been outstanding more so than most places I will say. The trouble is I cannot get the spec iMac I have in a shop, Rik. Its built to order and they seem to have more issues, thing is the i7 is good future proofing (as much as you can) and I dont want to step down hardware because they cant build clean machines  :( I will be looking at Windows all in ones today though, Scan are good but having a tower on the floor would hurt my back and I have no space for one on a desk, all in ones are easier for me physically.
Title: Re: iMac hard drive replacement program
Post by: Simon on Jul 23, 2011, 11:27:35
I do worry about these huge capacity hard drives.  It's a hell of a lot of data to lose if one fails.
Title: Re: iMac hard drive replacement program
Post by: Gary on Jul 23, 2011, 11:37:12
Quote from: Simon on Jul 23, 2011, 11:27:35
I do worry about these huge capacity hard drives.  It's a hell of a lot of data to lose if one fails.
Thats why I have the time machine backup running Simon, 1TB drives are not big now really and most are are dual platter as well. I also have clones I can boot from just in case. Thing is SSD technology is good but even they have issues apart from price  ;) backing up, and having physical copies is so important.
Title: Re: iMac hard drive replacement program
Post by: Simon on Jul 23, 2011, 12:28:42
But there comes a point where you have so many drives, and backups of backups, a huge filing cabinet of hard copies would take up less space!  ;D
Title: Re: iMac hard drive replacement program
Post by: Rik on Jul 23, 2011, 12:31:12
Except you have to factor in the re-typing...
Title: Re: iMac hard drive replacement program
Post by: Glenn on Jul 23, 2011, 12:31:48
OCR entry.  ;)
Title: Re: iMac hard drive replacement program
Post by: Rik on Jul 23, 2011, 12:32:39
Or the corrections... ;D
Title: Re: iMac hard drive replacement program
Post by: Simon on Jul 23, 2011, 13:28:02
What corections?  :dunno:
Title: Re: iMac hard drive replacement program
Post by: Rik on Jul 23, 2011, 14:55:33
To the OCR.
Title: Re: iMac hard drive replacement program
Post by: Simon on Jul 23, 2011, 15:00:00
 ;)
Title: Re: iMac hard drive replacement program
Post by: Technical Ben on Jul 23, 2011, 18:03:28
Quote from: Simon on Jul 23, 2011, 11:27:35
I do worry about these huge capacity hard drives.  It's a hell of a lot of data to lose if one fails.
Perhaps Apple just want some free music collections.  :whistle:
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