Critical manufacturing flaw in some MacBooks?
A reader sent us this report from RegHardware in the UK stating that Apple's MacBook owners may have faulty hard drives. Retrodata, a data recovery service has noticed their customers have a large number of failed Seagate 2.5 inch SATA drives that were made in China loaded with firmware 7.01.
"We're getting 20-30 times more failed drives of this kind than others," Retrodata chief Duncan Clarke told Register Hardware.
From the looks of the photo in the article, the drive platter gets scratched thus destroying the drive. Retrodata claims the read/write heads fail and this leads to the damage. Apple and Seagate has refused to comment thus far.
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Comments
As a smaller data recovery company I with a need to keep our records accurate I have to ask to make the comment:-
"20-30" times seems a little misleading, as Retrodata chief Duncan Clarke should be aware of his stats. As a company that professes to do thousands of drives it would imply that this is happening to at least 20 or 30 drives compared to the normal 1, or if they normally see 10, then they were unsuccessful with 200-300 drives, the implication to their 95% success rate must be alarming, and how come other data recovery comapanies have not picked up on this problem ? we have not.
Posted by: Andrew Butler | November 11, 2007 2:38 AM
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