MacBook hard drives flawed: 7.0.1 Seagate has fatal defect

There are some rumors going around that some MacBook hard drives could have flawed hard drives, according to a report by UK data-recovery firm Retrodata the hard drive that has the fatal defect are the 7.0.1 Seagate which was manufactured in China.

The flawed hard drives have a problem with their read/write heads as they can become detached from the slide that runs across the surface of the platters, this makes recovery impossible. Apple has said that they have only received a few reports of this problem, however Retrodata feel that Apple should issue a recall.

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