iMac hard drive replacement program

Gary · Jul 23, 2011, 10:34:17

Apple has determined that a very small number of Seagate 1TB hard drives used in 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMac systems, may fail under certain conditions. These systems were sold between May 2011 and July 2011.

Check here http://www.apple.com/support/imac-harddrive/?cid=CDM-US-DM-DBRF10018&cp=em--&sr=em

Rik · Jul 23, 2011, 10:37:44

Not that it affects me, of course.

Gary · Jul 23, 2011, 10:49:56

Quote from: Rik on Jul 23, 2011, 10:37:44
Not that it affects me, of course.

Nor me thankfully even though I have a Seagate in my new iMac its not a recall model, still waiting to here about this dust issue with mine, not impressed with the quality control, issues, but CS has been outstanding more so than most places I will say. The trouble is I cannot get the spec iMac I have in a shop, Rik. Its built to order and they seem to have more issues, thing is the i7 is good future proofing (as much as you can) and I dont want to step down hardware because they cant build clean machines

I will be looking at Windows all in ones today though, Scan are good but having a tower on the floor would hurt my back and I have no space for one on a desk, all in ones are easier for me physically.

Simon · Jul 23, 2011, 11:27:35

I do worry about these huge capacity hard drives. It's a hell of a lot of data to lose if one fails.

Gary · Jul 23, 2011, 11:37:12

Quote from: Simon on Jul 23, 2011, 11:27:35
I do worry about these huge capacity hard drives. It's a hell of a lot of data to lose if one fails.

Thats why I have the time machine backup running Simon, 1TB drives are not big now really and most are are dual platter as well. I also have clones I can boot from just in case. Thing is SSD technology is good but even they have issues apart from price

backing up, and having physical copies is so important.

Simon · Jul 23, 2011, 12:28:42

But there comes a point where you have so many drives, and backups of backups, a huge filing cabinet of hard copies would take up less space!

Rik · Jul 23, 2011, 12:31:12

Except you have to factor in the re-typing...

Glenn · Jul 23, 2011, 12:31:48

OCR entry.

Rik · Jul 23, 2011, 12:32:39

Or the corrections...

Simon · Jul 23, 2011, 13:28:02

What corections?

Rik · Jul 23, 2011, 14:55:33

To the OCR.

Simon · Jul 23, 2011, 15:00:00

Technical Ben · Jul 23, 2011, 18:03:28

Quote from: Simon on Jul 23, 2011, 11:27:35
I do worry about these huge capacity hard drives. It's a hell of a lot of data to lose if one fails.

Perhaps Apple just want some free music collections.