Seagate’s Macbook hard drives have “critical manufacturing flaw”

Posted by ipodosph

November 29, 2007

Via Retrodata, we’ve learned of a particularly nasty flaw in Seagate Macbook drives that could essentially destroy the data on your computer, and by that, we mean literally destroy it.

Some faulty Seagate 2.5″ hard drives from China have surfaced and, according to Retrodata, “the read/write heads appear to fail mechanically, quickly causing deep scratches to the platter surface, and rendering the drives practically unrecoverable.”

You can check if your Macbook is at risk by going to the System Profiler and looking under Serial-ATA for the revision number, which shows the firmware of your hard drive. If your hard drive has a firmware revision of 7.01, then you might want to back up your data to avoid any problems.