Even Better Reason To Back Up…
I’ve been seeing MacBooks and MacBook Pro’s with damaged hard drives lately, and this might explain it…
I’ve been assuming for a while now that the situation is exacerbated by bad timing. The computer needs to settle down COMPLETELY (the light needs to be pulsing) before picking it up and slinging it into the car on your way home. The built-in accelerometers have a habit of waking the laptops up (if you don’t let them go completely to sleep first) and causing the read-heads to bang against the hard drive disk as you go bouncing across train tracks and around corners. If you’ve ever taken your laptop out of the bag and found it to be hot-hot-hot, you should be very wary of the integrity of your data, since that symptom tells you that your Mac never went to sleep after all.
I have a laptop in my kitchen right now that is painfully, slowly allowing me to backup the client’s data before having the hard drive replaced. It’ll take several days!
I’m actually starting to think of INSISTING that everybody with a recent Mac upgrade to Leopard, and buy a really big external hard drive. Any money spent toward simple and easy backups will pay off BIG when things go haywire.
