I got the new 17" MBP last month and so far 2 HDDs have died in that machine. It like it's cursed or something.
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2011 17" MBP keeps killing my HDDs
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SMART failed on the first one and the seconded one starting buzzing and now the laptop fails to start up.
Yeah was going to get the 96GB ExpressCard SSD and maybe the 750GB 7200RPM Seagate drive. Might have to start doing that earlier than I had hoped.
7200 RPM has more vibrations, and if you carry around your laptop too much or waggle it the HD is likely to fail even faster.
I find the number of HDD failures in Macs to be disturbingly high.
I wonder if its the huge amounts of heat or something.
I wonder if its the huge amounts of heat or something.