For years I used an Iomega Minimax 500GB with my Mac mini. It worked fairly well, but always made lots of noise leading one friend to declare it defective. Since I've now sold the Mac mini, I decided to put it to other uses. In the middle of writing several GB it just vanished off the desktop. I picked up the Minimax and nearly burned myself it was so hot. After cooling off it resumed working, but I didn't trust it. Since the hard drive was in an enclosure, I couldn't get a SMART status from it. So I disassembled the enclosure, extracted the hard drive and popped it in my Powermac G5. It passed the basic SMART verification, but when I ran a SMART diagnostic tool I got a drive failing status. The failing part is that the drive had overheated (obviously), but also that it had 10 reallocated sectors.
Here's the question: Now that it's out of the blast furnace, is the drive safe to use? Or is it best destined for the trash bin? Also, could I use a slower, cooler drive in the old enclosure? Thanks, Eric -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
