Heh, I knew I could get you to comment on that one! :wink2:
Do you have a Blue or Black in your MBP? There have been some odd beachball issues with the Blues parking their heads too often in the MBP's since mid-2009. Supposedly, some Sleazegates do the same. I can't make heads nor tails of all those complaints about the issue, though. There doesn't appear to be a pattern to it at all (except that I don't read of people complaining about the issue with Hitachis).
A Scorpio Blue.
Capacity: 500.11 GB (500,107,862,016 bytes)
Model: WDC WD5000BEVT-00ZAT0
Revision: 01.01A01
I bought it a long, long time ago and only got the round tuit to replace it when the original Seagate drive got munged to the point of being unbootable due the drive constantly filling up.
I had Finder hang yesterday with empty windows on the internal HD with a spinning disk on the window until I restarted. Otherwise it has been running fine.
I did a clean start upgrade to Snow Leopard at the same time and after nearly 2 months still haven't restored everything as it was. Too much like work.
Is that the one that was in your TiVo you were complaining about overheating last week? Did you ever figure that out?
Yeah. Looks like the drive is bad, even though it passed all diags until the end. I ran one more test, the equivalent of an fsck and it went into a (green) screen of death loop. I put the OEM drive back in and it's been fine. I'll get an RMA and swap it back, eventually.
The drive arrived by FedEx ground with the box unsealed and flopping around with most of the padding missing. The FedEx guys keep checking my orders to see if its worth stealing.
I checked the drive and it seemed to work OK so I went with the heads being parked and it having to be either being DOA or OK. So much for that theory. It worked for an entire month and only starting giving me serious trouble at about the 2 1/2 week point.
I still have TWO other 2TB WD Green drives in external FW400 enclosures on my G4 Mac Mini NAS that throttle writes to 2MBs with 2-3 second pauses, often, sometimes, when they're full, maybe - and that is driving me nuts.
