A hard drive crash with a happy ending
Yesterday afternoon, I returned to my desk to find my Mac frozen. When I rebooted, the hard drive started making horrible noises, so there was no question that my 200GB Hitachi drive had crapped out. Fortunately, Time Machine had my back, and the good news is that I dusted off the 250GB HM250JI Samsung drive I had written off a while back. I had installed it in my MacBook, but it was slow to the point of being unusable. And as it turns out, this was a bug. I wouldn’t have known this if my hard drive hadn’t crashed, because I’d been using the 250GB drive in an external enclosure, where it behaved fine, if a little slow. Well, one firmware update later, and this drive is zipping along. It’s not a blazing speed demon, but it’s in the sweet spot for performance/capacity that I had hoped for when I bought it!