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Harddrive Failures looking at a certain brand will it work?

The Hitachi SATA drive model will work.
Whether boom it's like new depends on how you have backed up your data, and how you restore it. Partiularly, the stuff in the User folder(s) and Libraries have to go back in their correct positions.

Easiest way is to use Carbon Copy Cloner to make a complete bootable clone of your drive onto a backup drive, then restore that to the new drive.

If your original drive is still functional, you can put the new drive in a SATA-USB enclosure (about $20), Clone the original to the new and then just swap drives.
 
CanadaRAM said:
The Hitachi SATA drive model will work.
Whether boom it's like new depends on how you have backed up your data, and how you restore it. Partiularly, the stuff in the User folder(s) and Libraries have to go back in their correct positions.

Easiest way is to use Carbon Copy Cloner to make a complete bootable clone of your drive onto a backup drive, then restore that to the new drive.

If your original drive is still functional, you can put the new drive in a SATA-USB enclosure (about $20), Clone the original to the new and then just swap drives.
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well i use the smartbackup program of apple download section and made a abootable backup thatway so how would i use it?

will this hd just pop in? and will my bootable backup made with Smartbackup? i got it off the apple website in the downloads section

Any One?
 
I don't understand how a less than 2 year old HD can crap out. They are meant to last longer than that. Do you have Applecare? Is so, bring it back.
 
Its a complex piece of equipment, hard drives fail all the time, just like anything else.
 
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