What an interesting problem! First of all, I'd make sure that you have a complete backup of everything just incase. It seems like the drive is malfunctioning on both reads and writes, but it's not like using torrents or opening music in itunes is putting a large amount of strain on the drive, surely booting would stress the thing more? Are you sure that the drive is actually spinning down? How functional is the rest of the os? Would it be possible to put the drive in a usb enclosure, boot to osx, use it for a couple of days like that and see how well things work? Have you looked at smart info for the drive and if so, how healthy is it?
On 15/01/2011, Krister Ekstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks. > I have had this problem a little while now, but i haven't done anything > about it as of yet, however it makes me curious. > I was listening to some good music in ITunes when all of a sudden the music > died, it turned out that something had caused the internal hard drive to > just die, the motor had stopped and i don't know of a way of getting it back > to life again short of rebooting. What could cause the hard drive to do > this? This happens when i use ITunes or µTorrent to get files. Can you > strain a hard drive too much? It's not a question of energy saving either > since i have the hard drives set to not shut down at all. I'm at a loss as > what to do here and i don't want to take the machine to an Apple store since > i don't have an AppleCare plan for it. > Thanks for any help. > /Krister > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
