Is this the 2nd or 3rd dead Mac HD report here?

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Post #273,608 by Ashton 11/21/06 5:13:31 AM Reply	Is this the 2nd or 3rd dead Mac HD report here? ie HD failure on mini or other recent model Apple, within last few months. Seems a lot - guessing at number of Macs VS other *nix, Beastware, amidst the half a hundred regulars who post. Looks excessive as a 'cluster', if deemed infant mortality. (Or maybe the mini is so tiny, just more handling shocks. I didn't see any elastomer shock mounting in a few pics of the guts.)
Post #273,609 by pwhysall 11/21/06 5:52:09 AM Reply	2nd. And the other one is Scott, and he doesn't count because he kills all hardware he comes into contact with. Peter [link\|http://www.no2id.net/\|Don't Let The Terrorists Win] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes! [link\|http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?pwhysall\|A better terminal emulator] [link\|http://darwinia.co.uk/\|[image\|http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h262/pwhysall/Misc/saveus.png\|0\|Darwinia\|\|]]
Post #273,616 by boxley 11/21/06 8:42:18 AM Reply	they use bog standard ide harddrives so, shrug Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 50 years. meep
Post #273,617 by pwhysall 11/21/06 8:55:30 AM Reply	Indeed, my Mini is Maxtor-powered. Peter [link\|http://www.no2id.net/\|Don't Let The Terrorists Win] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes! [link\|http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?pwhysall\|A better terminal emulator] [link\|http://darwinia.co.uk/\|[image\|http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h262/pwhysall/Misc/saveus.png\|0\|Darwinia\|\|]]
Post #273,622 by bepatient 11/21/06 11:58:48 AM Reply	Heat maybe? That small a box may lead the HD to run hotter than avg. I lost a drive to that on my box...and am likely to lose another...though I caught the heat issue in time to deal with it. failures were hitachi drives though, not maxtor. Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}
Post #273,623 by Steve Lowe 11/21/06 1:18:46 PM Reply	None here We have 3 macs, 2 iBooks and a MacBook Pro - none have had disk issues in the nearly 3 years we started buying them. My work laptop (HP) from my last job went through 2 disks in 2 years. Harddisks are amazing bits of engineering and technology. It's somewhat surprising that they work at all. -- Steve [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu]

Dead mac mini - (Bman) - (10) - Nov. 21, 2006, 01:09:03 AM EST

Re: Dead mac mini - (pwhysall) - (8) - Nov. 21, 2006, 01:25:45 AM EST

Re: Dead mac mini - (Bman) - (1) - Nov. 21, 2006, 02:46:58 AM EST

Re: Dead mac mini - (pwhysall) - Nov. 21, 2006, 05:52:41 AM EST

Is this the 2nd or 3rd dead Mac HD report here? - (Ashton) - (5) - Nov. 21, 2006, 05:13:31 AM EST

2nd. - (pwhysall) - Nov. 21, 2006, 05:52:09 AM EST

they use bog standard ide harddrives so, shrug -NT - (boxley) - (1) - Nov. 21, 2006, 08:42:18 AM EST

Indeed, my Mini is Maxtor-powered. -NT - (pwhysall) - Nov. 21, 2006, 08:55:30 AM EST

Heat maybe? - (bepatient) - Nov. 21, 2006, 11:58:48 AM EST

None here - (Steve Lowe) - Nov. 21, 2006, 01:18:46 PM EST

Just got a call - (Bman) - Nov. 21, 2006, 08:52:41 PM EST

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