2 dead harddrives in less than 2 years.

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2 dead harddrives in less than 2 years.

Hi all,

My hard drive died 2 days ago (blinking folder at startup), but the problem is, it's the SECOND hard drive that has failed in my Macbook. My most recent hard drive is less than a year old, so I'm now wondering if there is something fundamentally wrong with my Macbook hardware, and not just bad luck with hard drives.

I know there were known issues with the first revision Macbook and the OEM hard drive, but I was hoping that my current drive would have lasted more than 9 months. (And I do believe that the drive is under warranty... but that's another issue)

Any help would be greatly appreciatled...

Macbook Core Duo, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Aug 22, 2008 6:29 AM

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GfulDedFan

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Aug 22, 2008 6:46 AM in response to vinceng

My guess is that this may be a result of the demands of a fast growing industry.

I hope this post emphasizes the importance of keeping a current backup of ones important files. -GDF

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Adam White

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Aug 22, 2008 6:54 AM in response to vinceng

How much ram are you running? Are you using Windoze? BootCamp or Parallels/Fusion?

I have the 1st Gen MacBook and while I upgraded my hard drive, I have yet to have a HDD failure.

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vinceng Author

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Aug 22, 2008 7:25 AM in response to Adam White

Running 1 gig of RAM, and haven't installed either bootcamp nor parallels/fusion on the computer... the hard drive just stopped spinning during normal daily use....
I was doing a little web browsing, listening to music, when everything just stopped working. I couldn't forcequit anything, and the keys and mouse (no pinwheel) were unresponsive. The my caps and num-lock buttons would turn on/off... but nothing else worked...

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Adam White

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Aug 22, 2008 8:05 AM in response to vinceng

The one thing I have decided for my MacBook hdd is to NOT use the kind with the safety feature Apple introduced for shock resistance. After reading about quite a few HDD failures, when I did replace it, I went with a standard design HDD. Maybe that is what Apple really needs to do to remedy this situation. IMHO.

Adam

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