[iBook] S.M.A.R.T. status : Failing

[Angus Wallace]

Well, when the drives are not being used, the heads are 'parked', and  
the drives are actually pretty resilient. I took my G4 800 with me on  
a cycle trip around Europe. And more recently, I dropped my ipod mini  
while cycling along at about 35km/h (don't ask me how)*. I was sure  
I'd recover a paper weight, but it seems to be ok - although I had to  
remove some bitumen from newly added dents to the beautiful  
aluminium.. :-(

Anyway - in general, drives are pretty tough. Some, though, will fail  
for manufacturing defects, etc...

  -thats- why it's VITAL to backup! :-)

Good luck getting it sorted!
-Angus

*thankfully, ipods only spin the HD to put the song into RAM. The  
heads are then parked. I'm reasonably confident that, had the heads  
been reading the HD at the time of impact, I WOULD have recovered a  
paper weight...



On 02/05/2005, at 10:44 PM, John Lyon wrote:

> I tote it around the house some, but it's used mostly in the living  
> room. As
> a former network admin, I'm well aware of the danger of the "head  
> crash," so
> I am more gentle with my laptops (and iPods) than some might be.  
> That said,
> drives have come a long way since it was verboten to move a desktop  
> PC while
> the drives were spun up.
>
> I can't remember if it was this list, or the TiBook/X4U list, but  
> there were
> extended discussions on backup strategies. When I saw the status (not
> available when booting from the software install and recovery DVD  
> - !?!?), I
> backed the drive up using Mike Bombich's "Carbon Copy Cloner."
>
> I've been booting from that backup firewire disk - but am heading  
> to the
> Apple store this morning.
>
> So, long story short, just be careful of sharp, jarring drops or  
> movements -
> particularly when the laptop is on (and not sleeping). The  
> designers have to
> take into account a certain amount of movement, it is a portable  
> device,
> after all.
>
> On 5/2/05 8:00 AM, "Craig Deline Jr" <boicraig at gmail.com> either  
> wrote,
> forwarded or quoted:
>
>
>> I have the same model iBook G4, mine the 12" 1GHz....how roughly do
>> you use your notebook? I always worry I will ruin my hdd...I only use
>> mine in bed at night watching TV...
>>
>
> -- 
> JEL
>
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