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Mac Forum / General / Hardware / May 2006Hard Drive Upgade
Help! I've added internal hard drives to my G4 mac twice already and both have died on me (they just started clicking when I'd watch DVDs on my computer). And I know clicking means the hard drive is dead. The first one I tried was Western Digital (60 gig). It failed on me after about 2 years so my files there are gone. I installed Seagate (120 gig) recently and that one failed within 6 months! Am I doing something wrong? Is there a specific brand of internal hard drive I should use with my Mac? I only have 20 gig right now and desperately needs more room. Should I opt of external HD? > Help! I've added internal hard drives to my G4 mac twice already and > both have died on me (they just started clicking when I'd watch DVDs on [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > with my Mac? I only have 20 gig right now and desperately needs more > room. Should I opt of external HD? I hope you contacted Seagate about that last drive. It was probably still under warranty. If you've been keeping backups, that's about all you can do. Drives fail. The best way around the kind of failures you're seeing, IMHO, is RAID-1. See my page on this topic for the details. <http://www.shubs.net/backup.html#redundant>  SignatureLife is toxic. It leads to death and too much of it at once can kill you. Thanks for the response. I haven't contacted Seagate yet, but will be soon. I just don't know why this happened to me twice in the span of a year. Bad luck maybe. > Thanks for the response. I haven't contacted Seagate yet, but will be > soon. I just don't know why this happened to me twice in the span of a > year. Bad luck maybe. Or maybe the environment. Does your computer live in a very hot or cold place? Or maybe there's a ton of dust or vibration? SignatureLife is toxic. It leads to death and too much of it at once can kill you. |
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