Retrodata, a data-recovery company, has just issued a warning for Apple MacBook owners with Seagate hard drives that were manufactured in China and have a firmware version of 7.01. Apparently these have a fatal flow that cause their read/write heads to fail mechanically, scratching up the hard drive surface as pictured and making data unrecoverable (even by professionals such as themselves). If you’ve got a MacBook, you should check to see if your internal drive is a Seagate and back up your data accordingly. There’s no official word yet from Apple on whether or not this actually a problem, but better safe than crying over lost nudie photos. [Retrodata - Thanks Eric!]
Nick
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 1:09 PMI work as an Certified Apple Technitian and I can confirm I have been telling any customer with a Seagate HD in a MacBook to back up for the past year.
We noticed the trend not to long after they went on sale, and since then have done hundreds of replacements, much more than we have ever seen in any other model!
Seriously, Take notice, I am waiting for Apple to issue a recall