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I've just finished to (try to) check a Seagate 5400.3 160 GB hard drive that was installed by Apple in the Macbook C2D Black last model as a replacement for the "old" one that had issues (as I've not met this first disk, I won't comment). Seemingly, the heads must have crashed somehow and he can't be formated seriously, there's dead blocks etc.
As it died after only a few months, here are his nicknames, in case you have one of its little bro…
Group: Editors
Posts: 15,189
Joined: 23-Dec 01
From: Paris - FR
Member No.: 2,758
If I've understood rightly the way the date is computed, it's been manufactured the first of october 2007, but it's been put to use only a year later.
In case you wonder, how is the date calculated?
format YYWWD or YYWD
Year is the fiscal year starting first of july of YY-1 Week is the week counted from first of july. Day is counted from start of the week, saturday is 1
As you can see, it's been invented by a mad accountant wedded with a lawyer…
Seagate 5400.3 Dead, Apple OEM, a few months old
Thu 15 Jan 2009, 06:30
