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Re: [OS X] iMac hard drive failure :(
said by bskuared  :seems like someone would want to develop a hard drive that didn't fail in a year.... hate to see this as the "norm". I will say that before I had the iMac I had several other pc type computers - mostly built at home and only one hard drive failure in the bunch. They just kept on ticking. I wonder what type of hard drive Apple uses? Could this be the issue? They use a range of brands (IBM back in the day, hitachi, samsung, WD, Seagate, Toshiba, etc). Every Hard drive will fail eventually.
To put some balance into this thread, I still have Macs from 10+ years ago that have the original, working hard drive. I have a PowerMac 9500 turned into a Server that still has it's original boot drive, working fine to this day. All of my modern Macs (Intel-based) still have their original working hard drives in use somewhere (some in external cases).
This really isn't a Mac vs PC issue.. sure you could argue that different file systems put different strains on the hard drive, but largely if a HD is going to fail early, it's going to fail no matter what you do with it.
It's really just luck of the draw.
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