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i get that their business is at risk, but i've literally never had a macbook disk fail on me in 12 years of dealing with half a dozen laptops (oldest one still

i get that their business is at risk, but i've literally never had a macbook disk fail on me in 12 years of dealing with half a dozen laptops (oldest one still in use today). this will get way more attention than it deserves.

VortexDream 5y ago
Not sure how this is relevant in any way. I've seen dozens of MacBooks where the hard drive had failed. Not to say that they fail any more than other laptops, but unless Apple has come up with some magical technology that makes their hard drives never fail, this is a terrible, terrible change. Water is wet, the moon circles the earth and hard drives fail (eventually, some sooner than others).
- asddubs 5y ago
  are you talking about actual hard drives or ssds though?
  - VortexDream 5y ago
    Both. SSDs also fail (yes, it's true). I'm not sure why people seem to think they last forever or that they never fail. They do not last forever. They do fail.
TillE 5y ago
I've had two sudden, total failures of my 2012 Macbook Air drive: once in warranty where it got replaced, once out of warranty. I have indeed been using a USB3 external SSD drive for the OS ever since. Inconvenient, but it works quite well.