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Data recovery firm sounds Mac hard drive damage alert

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

‘Critical’ flaw with China-made HDDs?
By Tony Smith → More by this author
Published Tuesday 30th October 2007 11:52 GMT

Updated Data recovery company Retrodata has challenged Apple to come clean about what it claims is a “critical manufacturing flaw” affecting some hard drives used in MacBook laptops and desktops like the Mac Mini - an issue that could result in data loss.

According to Retrodata, its customers have sent in a much higher number of failed Seagate 2.5in SATA drives made in China and loaded with firmware version 7.01 than of any other current hard drive model.

Learn more at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/30/apple_seagate_drive_warning/

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Users at risk of data loss thanks to ‘irresponsible’ Applwe

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

By Tom Jowitt, Techworld

A UK data recovery organisation has warned Apple Macbook users that they risk potential data loss due to a design flaw on certain hard drives.

The problem is found on the Seagate 2.5-inch SATA drives that are made in China and are loaded with firmware version 7.01. Model numbers affected include ST96812AS and ST98823AS.

Find out more at techworld

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