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How long did your ibook harddrive last for?

Mechanical HD - can't last forever?

Scary stuff :eek: - my ageing Tosh with (don't laugh) 6 Gig is still going strong. I used to work on PCs in the early days, I replaced a load of HDs, often people didn't have backups, it was a really sorry sight but I could rarely do anything. Nowadays optical drives are CHEAP! so I would recommend to anyone to go get one if you haven't already, think of it as insurance. Does anyone know of a HDD that is really old and still working? Oh by the way, I don't use the Tosh every day now...

Even when its going bad, just keep smiling.
 
Sheriff Woody said:
Does anyone know of a HDD that is really old and still working?
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Yeah all the drives in all the older servers at work. To be honest in my time with computers I've only had one machine have a HDD fail and that was an iMac G5 Rev A and the drive was DOA out of the box.
 
Sheriff Woody said:
Scary stuff :eek: - my ageing Tosh with (don't laugh) 6 Gig is still going strong.....
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What do you expect if you're going to put France as your location?
 
Alasta said:
Is the hard drive in the iBook something that the user can easily replace, or would it be best left to a professional service agent?
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It can be done. But it involves taking more or less the whole iBook apart. If you're a bit of a tinkerer and take it slow, easy and accurate you should be able to do it in an hour or so. But, you do void your warranty, and it's very easy to frell it up, so I always recommend that you get some professionals to do it.

(That is for an iBook under warrenty. If it's an old one with a busted HD, that can be brought back to life by just changing the HD, get a HD from newegg or wherever and go for it! ;))
 
Sheriff Woody said:
Scary stuff :eek: - my ageing Tosh with (don't laugh) 6 Gig is still going strong. I used to work on PCs in the early days, I replaced a load of HDs, often people didn't have backups, it was a really sorry sight but I could rarely do anything. Nowadays optical drives are CHEAP! so I would recommend to anyone to go get one if you haven't already, think of it as insurance. Does anyone know of a HDD that is really old and still working? Oh by the way, I don't use the Tosh every day now...

Even when its going bad, just keep smiling.
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I have an old 233mhz G3 I keep running for nostalgia purposes, and its 6Gig drive is still going strong... going on 8 years now.
 
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