Yet another memory hole

Entries categorized as ‘Hardware’

And the Seagates keep on dying

April 23, 2008 · 1 Comment

Two MacBooks, 4 dead Seagate Momentus HHDs in 18 months or so. There is something very wrong with Apple’s design here. They are cooking faster than a burger at the Double Meat Palace! Fortunately the latest one may be under warranty.

www.seagate.com/support/service

Categories: Hardware

Another dead Seagate

March 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment

http://seagate.custhelp.com/

The reference number for your question is ‘080330-000374′.

The reference number for your question is ‘080330-000381′.

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Seagate’s data recovery service …

“As a returning defective drive, if the drive is not in a functional state capable of a low-level format, the drive is disassembled and the platters (where the data is stored) are recycled.”

So, the problem with these drives could be that they use continuously recycled parts?

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Telephone Toll Free: 0011-800-5631-1670
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Categories: Hardware

When your MacBook’s crapola HD fails

August 7, 2007 · Leave a Comment

You might want to read this if a replacement logic board doesn’t get it back:

http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/01/freeze-your-hard-drive-to-recover-data.html

Categories: Hardware

Nokia 6101i

August 2, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Can be connected to via PC Suite under Parallels running XP.

Categories: Hardware · Software