Re: [Fed-Talk] Which Seagate 1 TB drives are a problem?
Re: [Fed-Talk] Which Seagate 1 TB drives are a problem?
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Which Seagate 1 TB drives are a problem?
- From: Joel Peterson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:37:21 +0000
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Which Seagate 1 TB drives are a problem?
Check your contract language. Here at the VA, all affected Macs will be
serviced on site by a technician and problem disk left behind. I'll just
restore the bad disk data over to the new disk and be done with it.
Joel Peterson
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On 11/30/12 6:10 AM, "Coradeschi, Thomas J CIV USARMY PEO AMMO (US)"
<email@hidden> wrote:
>At home, we got an email from Apple telling us that one of our iMacs was
>a candidate. SMART shows "impending doom" (I have not looked at the why,
>just the what) and the drive does spend a lot of time churning. I reset
>crashplan to do backups every 4 hours and need to find time to drop it @
>the apple store...
>
>Thomas Coradeschi
>Chief, Systems Engineering & Technology Integration Div
>PM Maneuver Ammunition Systems
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> On Behalf Of Michael Kluskens
>Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 10:32 AM
>To: email@hidden
>Subject: [Fed-Talk] Which Seagate 1 TB drives are a problem?
>
>"Apple has determined that certain Seagate 1TB hard drives used in
>21.5-inch and 27-inch iMac systems may fail. These systems were sold
>between October 2009 and July 2011."
>
>Is anyone aware of the range of Seagate drives that is affected by this
>issue, including those not installed in Apple iMacs. Last time Seagate
>had a big problem it turned out we had recently purchased 16 of the
>affected drives and even with the recommended firmware patch they failed
>at a much higher rate then any other hard drives we had including the 320
>GB Seagate hard drives that shipped with 34 Mac Pros we used for a
>cluster.
>
>Since we can't take advantage of this program, that is returning our
>iMacs and/or affected drives, does anyone know which SMART parameters to
>watch for this issue (understanding that a Google study determined that
>less than 50% of hard drive failures could be predicted using SMART
>parameters).
>
>Michael
>
>ps. I know someone will point to a DoD authorized provider; however, our
>security has said we can't use those, mostly because they don't have
>written DoD documentation and procedures in hand that says we can.
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