[X4U] Faulty 2.5-inch Hard Drives?

[Randy B. Singer]

There is mounting evidence that 2.5-inch Seagate hard drives in Apple  
products with firmware revision number 7.01 are defective, and use of  
these drives puts your data at risk.  2.5-inch drives are used in Mac  
minis and in Apple laptop computers (but not in their other desktop  
computers.)  So far Apple has not issued a recall.

To determine if your drive is one of these effected, in your ~/ 
Applications/Utilities/ folder is System Profiler.  Launch System  
Profiler and look under Serial-ATA for the Revision, which shows the  
firmware of your hard drive.  You will see “Model” and if it begins  
with letters “ST9” then it is a Seagate drive.  If yours is Revision  
7.01 (only Seagate drives have this number) you should consider  
backing up your data immediately.  Model numbers affected include  
ST96812AS and ST98823AS.

http://www.retrodata.co.uk/notice_apple_seagate_drives.php

http://www.techworld.com/storage/news/index.cfm?newsid=10532

<http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/11/06/ 
apple_chastised_for_ignoring_two_mac_data_loss_issues.html>

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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)

Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
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