Seagate 1 TB hard drive replacement program
Okay,
I checked the status of my internal, 1TB Seagate drive some months, ago and my iMac's serial number came up as qualified for the free replacement.
My iMac is a 2009, 27 inch screen model with the 1 TB drive installed.
It's coming down to the wire for getting this replaced. The reason I have been reluctant to do this and putting this off as I have seen a good number of postings here where either the drive replacement, itself, went bad or the replacement causes other issues or other component failures to take place right after the repair.
I purchased this iMac used last year. It has not given me any issues whatsoever and works great and I check the S.M.A.R.T. status of this drive on various occasions and the drive is always fine.
I am afraid of getting this done and having issues with my iMac shortly after the replacement with no recourse because Apple Techs could just say something just failed suddenly with no warning and I will end up paying for a more expensive repair that I cannot afford to do, presently.
I reformatted the internal drive when I bought this last year. The drive has not given me any trouble.
What exactly is wrong with these drives and is the issue an extended time problem with drive?
Do these drives start to fail as they get filled up with data.
I have backups of all of my data using CCC.
Should I risk having a perfectly running iMac on this "free" replacement that could, potentially, end up being not free for me, at all.
I Welcome opinions from those who have had this done successfully and those who weren't so lucky.
I am having a difficult time deciding what I should do.
ThanX everyone!
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 27in 3.06 GHz CPU, 1TB, 16 GB RAM