Q: 27" iMac 3TB drive manufacturer
Does anyone know which hard drive manufacture Apple uses for their 3TB Fusion drives in their iMacs? I'm considering a 3TB Fusion drive in my next iMac but have seen reports that Seagate's 3TB drives have a high failure ratecompared to HGST (formerly Hitachi). I know Apple has used Hitachi in the past but don't know what they're using in their current Macs.
Thanks
iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), OS X Yosemite (10.10), 32GB
Posted on Jan 26, 2015 10:21 AM
I want to thank everyone for their suggestions. As result I was able to clean up my system and delete a lot of old useless file. Unfortunately it didn't help my situation. It turns out that the culprit was a failing HDD. Console was showing I/O errors immediately after any stalls that I was experiencing. I downloaded DriveDX for a more thorough report (Disk Utility wasn't showing any errors) and it showed nearly 467 reallocated sectors, over 250 uncorrectable sectors and over 2000 I/O errors a day! I replaced the HDD with a 2 TB Toshiba yesterday and all is well. Again, thank you all for you feed back. This discussion was an education for me.
Posted on Feb 13, 2015 6:35 AM