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| From | "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.comp.periphs.hdd, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage |
| Subject | Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? |
| Date | 2015-09-30 10:29 +1000 |
| Message-ID | <d70onvFjj9tU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote >>>>> Hi. >>>> Lo. >>> Ha. >> La. > Hu. Lu. >>>>> I did more HDD testings with SMARTreporter (demo). >>>>> They showed green color, passed, etc. However, >>>>> I noticed its logs show possible bad signs: >>>>> http://pastie.org/pastes/10447460/text?key=n5pgkmll2uz2nljbwrznyg ... >>>> Absolutely certainly bad signs. Its got an absolute shitload of >>>> pending reallocatable sectors, 456, and its clearly been dropped. >>> What type of drop? A big drop or a small drop? >> The SMART report doesn???t say, its just a count. > Ah. There is one undefined field in the SMART report, I spose that might possibly be the max G shock its seen or something. Haven't researched that with that drive tho. >>> I will have to ask if he dropped it hard. >>>>> So, I ran a short test and it passed. Long test twice, it failed at >>>>> 90%. >>>>> This sounds scary to me. What do you guys think? >>>> She's dead Jim, you still into necrophilia ? >>> You love saying that. :P >> I got that from your NSA report > Prove it. If I did that, I'd have to kill you, again. >>>>> For now, I told him to use his MBP at his own risk and not >>>>> to do any more backups to Time Machine drive just in case >>>>> but do back up to external USB flash drives or so for now. >>>>> If the drive is dying, >>>> No if about it. >>> OK. >>>>> what is a good replacement in case Apple won't replace >>>>> it due to recent expired AppleCare on 9/17/2015 >>>> But it may have been covered when it was dropped. >>> We'll see... He doesn't want Apple to have his old >>> HDD since they don't return it to the owner. :( >> OK, pretty cheap to just buy a new one for the privacy. > Yeah, he doesn't want his data in the Apple store > even if it was encrypted, formatted, DBanned, etc. OK, it doesn’t cost much to be that secure. >>>>> and planning in advance. >>>> Not clear what you mean there. >>> Apple might not replace it for free >>> and he has to get his own replacement. >> Since he doesn't want Apple to keep the drive, >> best to just by a new one. They don't cost much. > Yeah, and Apple would swap with another > slow 5400 RPM HDD instead of a SSD. Yeah, makes sense to get a faster SSD and better handling of him dropping stuff. >>>>> He currently used almost 200 GB of disk space (Time Machine >>>>> didn't keep his VMs, big videos, etc. but those were copied >>>>> (back/cop)ied separately). >>>>> Thank you in advance. :) >>>> Still smirking. You were warned... >>> As usual. ;) >> Just like with the necrophilia. > :P
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13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-09-27 22:51 -0500
Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 09:57 +1000
Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-09-28 20:34 -0500
Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-09-28 22:00 -0500
Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 16:57 +1000
Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-09-29 08:25 -0500
Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-30 10:14 +1000
Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-09-29 21:31 -0500
Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-30 20:14 +1000
Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-09-30 16:38 -0500
Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 16:54 +1000
Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-09-29 08:28 -0500
Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-30 10:29 +1000
Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-09-29 21:34 -0500
Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-30 20:19 +1000
Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2015-10-02 20:56 -0400
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