X ` Man wrote:

One of the hard drives on one of my aging Apple computers has been dying
for a couple of weeks. It finally gave up the ghost yesterday. Called
Apple Care and the tech suggested about four different ways to try to
resuscitate it, to no avail.

So he made an appointment for me at the local Apple store. I showed up,
tech said "go to lunch." Came back 90 minutes later, new hard drive in
machine, running diagnostics.

No charge for labor or parts.

Love it.


Some hard drives die quickly, while some appear to last forever...

The following is a current screenshot of S.M.A.R.T. diagnostics of one
of the hard drives in my computer:
http://stigbye.motocross.io/temporar...agnostics.html

Note the diagnostics parameter "Power On Hours Count" marked with red,
as if the hexadecimal value in the rightmost column is calculated to a
decimal value, this will show the exact and total hours this hard drive
has been powered on...

When running a standard disk diagnosis tool on this hard drive, there is
also and so far not a single bad sector or other data errors found.

As both the number of power on hours and no bad sectors or data errors
has been common with many of my hard drives, what do you think my secret
is for keeping my hard drives running error free for "centuries"...?



Stig Arne Bye

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