But the flaw with that -- IMHO -- is that if you need to send it in for warranty repair, you still want to swap the old drive back in, because there's is no guarantee it'll come back with it. So there's another $100 of expense (to swap in the OEM and swap back once again). Now you're in for $150. For the same reason, I remove extra RAM I've added before giving it to Apple for repair. I also swap the OEM drive back in so Apple doesn't have my personal data...talk about piece of mind...there it is (plus I have a contractual requirement to protect certain laptop data I have).
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Well that's a different story. I don't have any personal data on my machine that's that sensitive or any contracts that require me to hide files.
If Apple does do a repair it will come back with the old drive in it as long as it's not a HDD failure, since Apple only covers the original hardware. Even RAM would come back still in the machine.
Also, they give you the option to at the very least make a guest/temp account for them to access certain things or change your login password if the repair doesn't require an admin account.
The most sensitive files on my computer are locked into a sparseimage file that's password protected either way, and at the very least, I can copy it over and delete it.
When a non Apple tech is replacing the drive and copying the info, he doesn't even have to log in to the machine, or I could have them just give me my stuff back and do the copying myself.
That is a pretty good point, I might as well do it and learn how because it will save me money now and anytime in the future that I need to do an upgrade, like when the cheap high capacity SSDs come out.
Plus I would like to keep my data private, I don't work on really high security stuff but I do work in a very competitive field.OK. You're pretty trusting. Just because someone at Apple doesn't need to see your personal data, doesn't mean they won't. I would never hand my personal drive over to anyone, including Apple service (notwithstanding the other data I have). But that's me -- I try to be cautious about preventing my own identity theft.
There was a certain actor in Hong Kong who have thousands of naked photo leaked when he booked his MacBook for a service. It was pretty big news all over Asia earlier this year... and he had to quit his acting career because of it.
I personally think there are no such thing as too much security... I use FileVault to encrypt my entire home directory, maybe only a few things are things that I like to keep secret... you might think this is nonsense, but ask around people who are into security and you'll find out that's just another layer of security, since when you have non sensitive date encrypted along with real data, it just makes the cracker that much harder to find out which part of the encrypted bit stream is actually relevant!!
Like imagine you have 1 meg of private data, but you had it encrypted with another 50 GB of home movies and photos and iTunes, there are just so many encrypted data a cracker have to look through for the private parts.
I am not that trusting, I am just not that paranoid. Scare tactics that the tech world try putting on people don't work to well for me. Like I never once got a virus on a Windows machine, never used virus blockers, and never will.
You just have to be smart in most cases. I am more afraid of someone stealing my mail then any personal info from my computer, since paper mail is just sitting in my mailbox until I get home which happens everyday. I have only sent in my computer for service twice, and each time the tech never needed my password to log in. The one time was because the HDD crashed, so my info was gone anyway.
Good to see this debate still going strong,i've just took me mutt for walk to the pub and had me a beer,very nice it was to
You mean an antivirus software?
But... if you never used one, how do you know you were never infected with any virus? Not ever single virus out there would give Windows a BSOD immediately you know? The state of Windows is that you could have used multiple antivirus and there could be still virus undetected!!!
There are also virus that does not do any harm at all, they just spread around for fun.
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neil or some body else guys .. could you please tell me how can i install my wd 320gb in my power book 1.67 ghz running on the mac osx 10.5.3 .. because when i plug it the comp was unable to see the drive .. thank you
neil or some body else guys .. could you please tell me how can i install my wd 320gb in my power book 1.67 ghz running on the mac osx 10.5.3 .. because when i plug it the comp was unable to see the drive .. thank you
You probably need to format it. There is some discussion about that starting with post #27 in this thread.
my friend thank you .. but i can not see to format it .. help please .. i want to see the disk on my desktop or somewhere to be able to format it .. thank you again .. and i appreciate if you could help me ..
Did you run Disk Utility? Does the drive not show up there? If not you may not have it installed properly, or it could be defective, or it's the wrong type.
Does a PowerBook take a SATA or a PATA drive. I've never used one so I don't know.
You'll be able to format it when the Hard Disk itself is installed inside your laptop.
You boot your laptop with the OS X CD/DVD and you can choose to format it somewhere in the OS installer.
LOL....here I thought I was the only one left. I've been using Windows for a long, long time and never once have I encountered a virus. Once a year or so I load up whatever the "best" AV is at the time and run a check. It always turns up negative and I uninstall it. IMO, a minimal amount of common sense does much better than any AV software I've come across and doesn't slow your system to a crawl. Contrary to what some believe, viruses don't just show up one day, you have to install them off of piratebay or some such.
Alright I'm finally getting around to ordering the drive to do the upgrade. I'm actually going to get the 250GB drive because I really don't need the 320GB. My only problem is that the only place I can find the drive is at new egg and their description doesn't show a warranty, but several reviewers have stated that it comes with a five year warranty. I really want a warranty, does anyone know if it really does have one? It is listed as retail but the reviews also said that it is shipped as just the drive in a anti-static bag. (I called newegg but their support people had no idea what they were talking about and just referred me back to the web page)
I did manage to get one on my VMWare partition though...
I was downloading a bunch of flash recorders for a job and wasn't paying too much attention to the sites or crappy programs though.
Nobody sells a laptop hard drive with SATA and power cables, so it must be OEM.
And since they offer warranty to all laptop drives and all laptop drives come in an anti-static bag standalone, but deduction, your drive comes with warranty.