Wow, John, that so sounds like it was the G-Drive's much more powerful 3.5" disk's magnetic field interfering with the "laptop" 2.5" drive in the Mini!
Nice to know, since I have a similar setup! Haven't had any problems yet, but it's good information, just in case. j. On 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. -- Jonathan Fletcher FileMaker 9/10/11/12 Certified Developer Fletcher Data Consulting [email protected] http://www.fletcherdata.com 502-509-7137 Personal Blog o'Stuff: http://jfletch.posterous.com Kentuckiana's FileMaker Developers Group Next meeting: Tuesday, October 30th, 12:00 pm to 3:30-ish Blog: http://www.kyfmp.com _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
