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Re: Video posted by Dave Haynie
« on: March 22, 2011, 05:55:36 PM »
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Couldn't agree with you more, until last summer when I finally went on the net I was blissfully unaware that certain so called Amiga users spent most of their time on these forums talking about everything else other than the Amiga... :(


Sorry the rest of the community built horizons beyond the scope of the Amiga.

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Anywhoo... just to inject a bit of irony here, anyone know how long an HD in an iMac should last, mines is only about 7 months old and it's failing with some message about "SMART failure occurring"... ruddy poxy piece of crApple junk... :angry:


Unless Apple went into the HD business and forgot to mention it to the rest of the world, it's highly unlikely that your HD failing is their fault. Back to your question... Consumer electronics should last around 4-5 years, obviously this will of course depend on how those pieces of kit were treated however.

Truthfully I'd not put much trust any hard drive on any system much beyond 3 years, even on a desktop system that is never moved. Sure, they can last years, even a decade or more, but as they get older the probability of their failing increases.

If your drive is registering a SMART failure, realistically it's time to replace it whilst it's still operable so as to prevent data loss. It's a warning feature that I would have killed for a couple of times with Amigas over the years... Live and learn I guess.
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Re: Video posted by Dave Haynie
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2011, 06:05:21 PM »
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Just spent all afternoon backing it up (500GB) and ordered a new one, the ruddy thing was bought brand new only 7 months ago to go with the iMac but to be honest I think I should have sent it back as it's been pretty flakey since I got it... :(


I'd take it back then. There is no way in hell that is right.

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(Gawd... another day to look forward to re-installing everything... :()


Is there no equivalent of Norton Ghost for MacOS?
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Re: Video posted by Dave Haynie
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2011, 06:48:47 PM »
Before you do that, you might want to read this It may well save you a great deal of time and trouble.

Norton Ghost is a drive imaging tool that allows you to transplant the contents of one hard drive to another in such a manner as to allow the host OS to continue on as though nothing had changed. The above describes a similar piece of software for OSX.
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