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On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:48:42 -0500, iBoaterer wrote:

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On 11/15/11 8:49 PM, JustWait wrote:
On 11/15/2011 8:47 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:59:18 -0500, X `
wrote:

On 11/15/11 6:36 PM, North Star wrote:
On Nov 15, 4:45 pm, X ` 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.

Wow! just how old is that computer and was it still under warranty?

Two years next month. When I bought it, I paid about $100 for a three
year extended warranty. It's really nice...if I have a problem, I call
Apple Care on the phone and usually the English speaking person who
answers can work out the difficulty with me doing what is suggested. If
not, the rep makes an appointment for me at the local store.

I just reinstalled my apps and data back on the machine from a backup.

Since most hard drives are warranted for 5 years by the manufacturer
these days that seems like a great deal for Apple. Most computer
problems are caused by bad hard drives. That has been true for a long
time, pretty much since the end of the card reader and open reel tape
drive.

Wow! You mean Harry bought an extended service plan? Holy ****!!! I wish
those were available with PC's snerk

I'm sure with all the imaginary computers at your facilities, you can
just hot swap a failed drive out instantaneously, right?

It's about that simple to do so.

You can hot swap any SATA drive in any win OS, XP or newer.

I was playing with drives the other day and as soon as you plug them
in, XP finds them and installs them.
I am not sure the RAID BIOS on the controller card would actually
rebuild the drive tho since that is usually only accessible on a boot.
I think you can mirror in the OS. I just haven't done it.

Yep, Harry the computer expert just doesn't know...