It is strange because I have been getting the "beach ball" a lot lately and it has been staying on for long times.
Nora On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 8:04 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > This story may have NO relevance to what happened to my hard drive but it > is sure strange. > > I took a MacMini Server and converted to a regular Mac, took to my office > along with an ethernet switch, superdrive, firewire hub, Airport Extreme > AND a G-Technologies 3TB TimeMachine backup drive. When I first took it > all was well, the machine is just over a year old, it's one of the newer > Mini's with the plastic like cover over the bottom that twist off so access > to the inside is much easier then the old Mini's. > > The machine ran day and night but when going on vacation I felt I may as > well shut everything down. When I returned it would not boot, tried > everything and finally had to schedule a Genius bar appointment. Sure > enough, for some reason while it was shut off the primary hard drive had > gone bad, so Apple installed a new one. > > I brought it back and it would hardly run, I mean it took close to an hour > to boot, then I couldn't do a thing with it. Scheduled another Genius > appointment and they once again erased the hard drive and installed > Mountain Lion again. Got it to the office and the same thing continued to > happen, but it didn't at the Apple store. > > What the heck? At the remote chance the G-Technology backup drive was > interfering (I had the Mini sitting right on top of the backup drive so > with the plastic bottom the metal on the firewire drive was really just > millimeters from the working of the Mini. As soon as I moved the > G-Technologies drive to a shelf below the Mini everything began working > perfectly. Unreal, how is this possible? How could the backup have > destroyed the original disk and why was it making the machine so slow? It > continued to take about an hour to boot, took Safari about 30 min. to load, > iTunes would never load. As soon as I separated the two everything was > fine. > > Maybe a fluke, but I wanted to pass along just in case anyone was doing as > I was with a Mini. > > John > > > On Nov 1, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Brian ONeal wrote: > > "Over the years, I have found Hitachi & Samsung spinning hard drives to > have the highest defect rate..." > > I agree with the above statement 100%. I am constantly replacing these two > brands. > > Brian O'Neal > > > On Oct 31, 2012, at 10:57 PM, Jeff @ SLYN Systems wrote: > > Hi, > Promise I don't mean to come across as snooty nor as a Know-It-All but a > dead hard drive will many times have a louder (than normal) clicking > sound. Just wanted to ad this to the conversation. > The sad part is that newer hard drives seem to last a much shorter time > than a decade ago but part of that might be they are also lesser expensive > in price. A client bought a mass merchandiser (such as Best Buy or > WalMart) Lenovo unit in August and literally was here at my place in early > October with a dead (clicking) hard drive on his hands. We could have > recovered data but it was going to require parts being replaced > (expensive) and he gave up the 2 months of data on it to have it > replaced by Lenovo's warranty. > Over the years, I have found Hitachi & Samsung spinning hard drives to > have the highest defect rate but this one was a Seagate. Guess you never > know. > All the best, > > Jeff Slyn, Owner > SLYN Systems & Peripherals > (502) 426-5469 > http://www.SLYNsystems.com <http://www.slynsystems.com/> > [email protected] Twitter: @SLYNsystems > serving Kentuckiana clients 7 days a week since 1985! > > ---------- Original Message ---------- > From: Brian ONeal <[email protected]> > To: Topics related to Apple and Macintosh computers < > [email protected]> > Subject: Re: [MacGroup] Hard Drive Crash > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:55:14 -0400 > > Highly unlikely, but the power cable to the drive may be loose inside. No > noise is typically a dead drive. > > Brian O'Neal > > > On Oct 31, 2012, at 8:35 PM, Nora Probasco wrote: > > I think my fairly new 750g hard drive has crashed. When I hit the on > button nothing happens but I see the light that shows me it is on. There is > no initial sound to let me know it is starting up and it is just silent. > Anything else it could be? > > Nora > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > >
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