Turtle o Wurtle wrote:I've had three mac HDD's fail on me over the years. They're shite.
Yeah, there's your problem. Macs aren't meant to be used for anything serious any more, they just can't handle it; we're always getting those damned beach balls at work.Turtle o Wurtle wrote:I'm a POWA USER.
Funkstain wrote:Hang on. An HDD is an HDD, pretty much. You've probably got a Seagate or Western Digital or whatever in your iMac. Surely the failure rates are consistent across any OS or set-up?
tin_robot wrote:@Blue - assume you've run disk utility and checked/repaired the HDD status?
Turtle o Wurtle wrote:How can the data that's put on a drive make it fail, or not?
Elmlea wrote:I thought it was more to do with how different OSs choose to address and access the drive, not just what data's stored there.
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