I've got a week 06 i5 with a Seagate drive (ST31000528ASQ), and it rumbles and makes a fair bit of noise. Performance seems to be fine, but that noise just doesn't seem right. Time Machine backing up often, just in case.
Do you own one?
1. Has your drive failed?
2. Does it make loud clicking noises?
3.Do you get long pauses and the beach ball every once in a while or when loading an application?
4. Do you get errors when transferring data?
How do I find out what drive id I have? I am a mac newbie!
I want to know from people's experience who own an iMac with a Seagate drive?
I hate Seagate as a hard drive manufacturer and with my luck I received my iMac i7 today with a Seagate ST31000528ASQ Drive.
I have read horrible reviews about loud clicking noises and people's hard drive failing.
Do you own one?
1. Has your drive failed?
2. Does it make loud clicking noises?
3.Do you get long pauses and the beach ball every once in a while or when loading an application?
4. Do you get errors when transferring data?
noI want to know from people's experience who own an iMac with a Seagate drive?
I hate Seagate as a hard drive manufacturer and with my luck I received my iMac i7 today with a Seagate ST31000528ASQ Drive.
I have read horrible reviews about loud clicking noises and people's hard drive failing.
Do you own one?
yes
1. Has your drive failed?
no
2. Does it make loud clicking noises?
no
3.Do you get long pauses and the beach ball every once in a while or when loading an application?
no
4. Do you get errors when transferring data?
I want to know from people's experience who own an iMac with a Seagate drive?
I hate Seagate as a hard drive manufacturer and with my luck I received my iMac i7 today with a Seagate ST31000528ASQ Drive.
I have read horrible reviews about loud clicking noises and people's hard drive failing.
Do you own one?
1. Has your drive failed?
2. Does it make loud clicking noises?
3.Do you get long pauses and the beach ball every once in a while or when loading an application?
4. Do you get errors when transferring data?
I have this drive and it failed in my i7. I sent it back and am awaiting a replacement. When I called Apple they were not shocked at all and almost rushed to get me an exchange ordered. I bet it happens frequently.
Sorry to hear about your situation but why would they be shocked to hear about a hard disk failure (of any model) at AppleCare, considering the only reason people call them is to request warranty service on their Macs? Did you expect them to gasp in horror?
The HD in my previous iMac (mid-2007 24") failed two years into AppleCare and they rushed to replace it for me too. Oh, and that was a Western Digital.
Why? I worked telephone tech support for over two years. As a support agent for Apple, I would have at least had the customer reboot and run Disk Utility to initiate a repair. The fact that they didn't even have me perform this task raises flags of known, more broad problems they are having for them to assume such a failure. I had already performed this but they didn't know that.
The other machine in my residence is an i5 iMac with the ST31000528ASQ drive. I can verify that it makes clicking sounds on occasional, often at boot and wake from sleep,a s well as a few other occasional times. I would think that its the drive spinning up, I'm not too worried (especially since data is backed up).
Ordered a 27" iMac i5 for a client in November 09, FINALLY received it today. It has a ST31000528ASQ in it.
While I was setting it up, it began performing sluggish, then became unresponsive after about an hour. I turned it off and on again. Now it doesnt boot. I just get folder with ? mark
It was hot enough to burn me on the top left (about 65 degrees C).
SMART status - fine
verify disk - fine
apple hardware test - fine (quick and extended)
Format and reinstall - failed.
zero all data - failed.
error: "Assert: internal error or unimplemented"
spent 2 hours on the phone to apple and the muppets finally believe my hard disk is faulty. Looks like the apple hardware test doesn't test the hard disk. FFS!
I think I might convince the client to buy the applecare warranty.
That's what mine sounds like sometimes...a grumbling stomach.Mine sounds like boiling water in a hot mist humidifier. Or a growling stomach. all the time.![]()