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You guys have me a bit worried now. After a not-so-pleasant first experience with Mac's (I keep encountering battery problems with my 12" G4 PowerBook, and all signs point to a logic board defect), now it seems, from reading these posts, that a hard drive failure is inevitable and unavoidable. Now I'm not bashing Apple here, but why has my Dad's old Dell Inspiron been running flawlessly (albeit quite slow now) for about 4 1/2 years with nary a hiccup. (He's been running Linux on it for a couple of years, so that eliminates OS issues). I do make backups of my important stuff, as I realize that you should always plan for the worst, but from the almost religious and dogmatic following that DW seems to have here, it seems that the hard drives in Apple products fail as a matter of mere routine. Is this what I have to look forward to with my 1 year old PB? Because when I forked over the $1600+ for what I thought to be a superior quality product, when I could've bought a faster, more featureful (read more gadgety) PC laptop for less money, I did so because I thought it would last me faithfully for years to come. Please tell me that you all are anomalies. Please tell me that the money that I thought I was spending on quality actually bought quality.
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Well... in my case I've used DiskWarrior exactly once to restore a corrupt volume. This is the only case like this that I've experienced in the past... I dunno... six years? Maybe longer. I haven't update Norton in years, probably not since the System 7 days.
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HD failures are par for the course no matter what you buy. 2002 was a bad year for me: I had two disks go (not in a Mac, in a PC). First started producing bad sectors (which was pretty much non-fatal to my data, and detected by SMART). The second, replacement for the first, suffered a logic board failure, which is very much an 'Aaaah! My data! My beautiful data!' moment. Especially as it spewed garbage over the IDE bus in its death throws, causing a fair amount of corruption to another, innocent disk.
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First of all, there are two entirely different things we're talking about here:
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I have no experience with Windows (thank goodness), but Mac OS is definitely more prone to disk damage (the software kind) than other UNIX-like OS's I've used.
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You are reading about disk utilities. There are going to be a ton of stories about hard drive failures when talking about disk utilities. The people that have never had the issues, are probably not reading or responding. |
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