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<blockquote data-quote="Nighthawk4" data-source="post: 971537" data-attributes="member: 61193"><p>Mine said 14 errors.</p><p></p><p>The thing that puzzles me is that I have PCs with Seagate hard drives which have been running faultlessly for many years. All of these are in boxes where you just turn a couple of knurled nuts and remove the side, if you wanted to replace the disk.</p><p></p><p>Why does it have to be the sealed unit iMac which is less than two years old that has a Seagate disk which is failing?</p><p></p><p>Why can't Apple buy good quality Seagate disks, rather than use their seconds? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p><p></p><p>Incidentally, you can set the SMART Utility to only show a fail if the number of bad sectors increases. It doesn't help, but makes you feel better. It makes you feel the £900 you spent less than two years ago is not about to turn into an expensive ornament very soon.</p><p></p><p>Sorry, had a bad month trying to get my iPhone to work with 3G - so feeling a little touchy about such things at present. Everything else I have ever bought from Apple has been superb quality. <img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Undecided.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":\" title="Undecided :\" data-shortname=":\" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nighthawk4, post: 971537, member: 61193"] Mine said 14 errors. The thing that puzzles me is that I have PCs with Seagate hard drives which have been running faultlessly for many years. All of these are in boxes where you just turn a couple of knurled nuts and remove the side, if you wanted to replace the disk. Why does it have to be the sealed unit iMac which is less than two years old that has a Seagate disk which is failing? Why can't Apple buy good quality Seagate disks, rather than use their seconds? :( Incidentally, you can set the SMART Utility to only show a fail if the number of bad sectors increases. It doesn't help, but makes you feel better. It makes you feel the £900 you spent less than two years ago is not about to turn into an expensive ornament very soon. Sorry, had a bad month trying to get my iPhone to work with 3G - so feeling a little touchy about such things at present. Everything else I have ever bought from Apple has been superb quality. :\ [/QUOTE]
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