Apple Recalls Some iMac Seagate 1TB Hard Drives

If this becomes a scandal, will it be called Seagategate?

Seagate drives fail too much. This has been a known issue for many years now. Avoid them like a plague!

how do i know if it is a seagate or wd harddrives?

Open system profiler and look in the SATA pane.

Seagate was once the maker of some of the most reliable HD's around but since about 2008 when the .11 series came out they have been nothing short of 2nd rate.

WD on the other hand is the exact opposite. A one time not so great company but now they are one of my favs. The Black series in particular.

Good for Apple, but Seagate has been sucking lately, I recently bought a 1TB Seagate drive aswell just a few months back, and it has failed on many occasions, and performs pretty badly.. It's ok for storage but horrible for an OS..

Western Digital FTW.

WD in mine

Dam im part of the program, but i haven't had any issues with my hard drive as of yet :confused:

Get it fixed... if its anything like similar Seagate issues I've experienced- the drive will show no signs of problems- it will just stop working.

I had a Seagate drive that was part of a recall program I didn't know about (I didn't properly register the drive)- there was a firmware issue on the drives that caused them to just stop working- I lost ALOT of work a result. I'm much more careful backing up, and properly registering products.

I know these companies are pretty much the same, but I personally have had nothing but bad luck with Seagate drives, I've had some WD go bad as well, but not the extent as with Seagate.

I love the WD Black drives. I have a 1TB 3.5" in my desktop and a 500GB 2.5" in my MacBook. Next best thing to SSD.

The 2.5" on my MacBook's SATA1 can get about 130MB/sec at times and sustains around 126MB. Very respectable for a 2.5" magnetic HD. Got it on sale about a month ago for $58.

Seagate used to be quality, now they're the worst of all HDD manufacturers it seems. I like hitachi drives in laptops (quiet, durable, relatively fast), WD for storage. The MyBook Element drives are cheap, quiet, go to sleep reliably (saving power) and perform rather well despite the lower-than-7200 rpm spindle speed.

I called Apple Care and I was told they don't replace the hard drive until it fails. He said, "The recall itself isn't enough to warrant a replacement." Those were his exact words.

Well, this sounds like bs to me. I can still return my iMac so gonna see what they say at the store.

Well if that is really true, that SCREAMS of a class action lawsuit.

I mean c'mon, "Yes, your hard drive is recalled, but we only replace it after you lose all your data." How the hell does that make sense? Hopefully, you just got a poor representative on the phone. I'd call back again honestly.

I sure hope that is not true, because that would be just an insane policy.

I had a friend that had an HP PC and there was a recall on certain drives but only certain model #s and his was not listed, but he was having some issues.

So I researched the problems, and I told him, "Call HP, tell them you're having similar issues to the ones reported even though your model number doesn't match but is a very similar model and brand." The PC was not under warranty but, with a little coaxing, HP STILL replaced the hard drive. And then I was able to recover most if not all of his data on the new HD.

Now that's what I call service above and beyond.

It seems as if billion dollar cash rich Apple is more increasingly waiting for the class action lawsuit before appropriately taking care of problems. I don't remember it being that way in the old days as much.

I called Apple Care and I was told they don't replace the hard drive until it fails. He said, "The recall itself isn't enough to warrant a replacement." Those were his exact words.

Well, this sounds like bs to me. I can still return my iMac so gonna see what they say at the store.

They said they would gladly replace the drive in mine, but I don't want them monkeying around inside of it.