Fuck you Apple and Hitachi! - Page 3

On August 30 2009 20:49 haduken wrote:
I dunno how apple retail works in the states but in australia you can bring it into a local mac store and they will swap / repair the drive on the spot for you.

On August 30 2009 13:14 ghermination wrote:


Wow Aegrean, already unbanned and trolling again? Don't listen to him, Mac's suck, buy a $1000 cheaper Windows laptop and never look back.

On August 30 2009 17:47 ghermination wrote:


Seagate
Western Digital

Those are the top 2. Hitachi would be #3 only because there are only 3 major companies, but Hitachi drives are TERRIBLE, just a single look at the reviews on newegg will show you that.

On August 30 2009 23:56 FragKrag wrote:
I'm sorry I trusted a $2000 computer that is barely 7 months old with a few files! My 4 year old Dell laptop hard drive has never failed on me despite being less than half the cost. Why would I expect a high quality mac drive to fail before a budget Dell?

On August 31 2009 01:30 MacWorld wrote:
Even nuclear plants and spaceships fail. Your only problem (as the warranty, for free, gives you a new harddrive) is that you didn´t back up your files. You are the one who failed here.

On August 30 2009 21:43 Aegraen wrote:


If you can afford it buy a SSD. Intel's X-25M and OCZ's Vertex are by far the best and just about any computer guru will tell you, upgrading to a SSD is the best upgrade you can do for your computer. SSD are kind of expensive right now, but you can get one for around 220 or so for a ~80Gig.

I wouldn't even bother buying an antiquated HDD unless you can't afford a SSD.

On August 30 2009 17:41 v[1.8]c wrote:
Please give me a list of your top 3 manufacturers for HDDs.

On August 31 2009 02:04 Jibba wrote:
SSDs have a shorter lifespan than regular hard drives because they're not designed for constant I/O.


WD, Seagate, Samsung.

Newegg ratings mean nothing.

On August 31 2009 01:50 OreoBoi wrote:


Your first statement makes no sense. One nuclear power plant has ever failed and that was because they were running tests without the safety features. Nuclear power plants will never fail as long as the people operating it are smart enough to watch the readings. There is a different between what you described, which is an error, and a mechanical design failure. In the OP's case, without any indication or external forces that he knows about, his hard drive crashed. A nuclear power plant fails if someone does not pay attention to the warnings.

On August 31 2009 01:50 OreoBoi wrote:How does the giving him a new harddrive help at all? All the work I have on my computer is worth incredibly more than what the harddrive is worth. Giving me a new harddrive that may crash again is worthless..

On August 31 2009 01:50 OreoBoi wrote:How did he fail? He assume a product would work? He assumed with Mac bashing PC in all its ads that Mac was actually better? He thinks that paying by paying 3 times the amount that he would pay on a similar machine, he should get something with good quality? He said that he finished some of the stuff the day and the day before, not everyone backs up everyday. Oh, maybe you Mac people do because you are afraid of losing your work everyday because of your computer.

On August 31 2009 02:24 MacWorld wrote:


Actually there have been nomerous cases where nuclear plants in one way or others have failed, eventhough it seldom leads up to disasters like Tjernobyl. Despite high security and rigorous safety measures things will fail. But in case you missed the whole point - things can fail eventhough you try to prevent them from not doing so. I bet harddrives more expensive than the ones in Apple´s computers have failed before.

On August 31 2009 01:50 OreoBoi wrote:How does the giving him a new harddrive help at all? All the work I have on my computer is worth incredibly more than what the harddrive is worth. Giving me a new harddrive that may crash again is worthless..

Yeah, and that´s why you copy your files to an external harddrive or even better to a "nonphysical" harddrive over the internet. Harddrives may crash, so may rammemories, motherboards, fans, etcetera - so I guess you are better off not working with computers at all. A new harddrive would probably allow him to continue to work. But please, link to a harddrive (non-ssd) that has never crashed. If he had made a time machine backup he would have a clone of his old harddrive on his new harddrive in under 30 minutes. That´s a built in feature.

And also, if I knew that I had worked my ass off for a long time and finally finalising that work - I would for sure make at least one backup. And I would probably do it more than once along the road.

On August 31 2009 01:50 OreoBoi wrote:How did he fail? He assume a product would work? He assumed with Mac bashing PC in all its ads that Mac was actually better? He thinks that paying by paying 3 times the amount that he would pay on a similar machine, he should get something with good quality? He said that he finished some of the stuff the day and the day before, not everyone backs up everyday. Oh, maybe you Mac people do because you are afraid of losing your work everyday because of your computer.

He failed because he didn´t back up his files. Although he knew how important it was, not losing them. He would probably be equally angry if the computer was running windows or unix-based systems too. And paying "three times the amount" is just bullshit. Or you might want to show me where I can buy a portable PC with the same specifics as the MacBook pro 13" - http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MB990LL/A?mco=Nzk2MDgzNA for 1/3 the price.

On August 31 2009 02:29 Aegraen wrote:




Mac's are extremely overrated and extremely expensive. They rely on hipsters to be willing to pay that much for the "flavor of the month". You're buying the name as much as you are buying the product.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834115592

Blows that away and is 500$ cheaper.

On August 31 2009 02:52 MacWorld wrote:


Funny thing is - the users do not think so. Why is that? Why is it that people continue to buy Apple´s products, again and again and again. And more and more people are doing it. I´ve been using computers since late 80´s, starting with amiga 500 - went through win 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, XP when I bought my first Mac four years ago. And right now there is nothing that Microsoft puts out that wants me to switch back.

On August 31 2009 02:15 Aegraen wrote:


Actually, SSD lifespan's are extremely long, much longer than any HDD. Even with a daily 3TB read/write SSD lasts over 12 years and thats the older models.

NAND-Flash technology is not as brittle as mechanical.

On August 31 2009 03:00 Jibba wrote:
Every time you post, whether it's in General, Broodwar of here, you post complete bullshit. MLC lifespan is terrible and old SLCs were under 100,000 cycles and the X25-M is the first one made that should beat out 5 years. 3TB daily lasting for over 12 years? Seriously, just stop posting forever.

There is no theoretical limit to the amount of writing a mechanical hard drive can take, like there is for flash.