So I have a 2009 Alu 13" Macbook Pro, 2.26, 8GB Ram. I stuck in a WD 640 Blue drive (WD6400BEVT). It worked fine for a few months, then recently started acting strange. Ending with occasional kernal panics on boot. So after some disk checking using SMART utils and whatnot, I discovered it was toast. No Prob, RMA, new drive comes. Still having the same weird issues with the replacement though even after a clean install of the OS.
The drive does work fine in a external FW case. For the moment I put a old Apple 160GB OEM drive I had back into the machine, did a clean install, and it's running just fine. The problem started ironically the first time I used the SD card slot for a card from my gopro. I haven't used the slot since but the new drive still has issues. I don't think the slot and the drive are linked in any way.... (Slot is on USB bus right?)
My buddy does a lot of amateur video work for a local blog, and he was filling up his MacBook HD (2008, 4GB ram, 2.13Ghz). Asked what the largest drive he could get was, so we replaced his stock 320 with a Seagate 750GB drive, specifically,
this drive. It worked fine for about 6 weeks or so, but now is exhibiting the exact same behavior on his machine that I had. Both machines act strange, hard crash, and then won't reboot. His will also Kernal panic on boot. Starting up in target mode and running disk utility (from another mac), both drives fail around step 2 with the warning to backup what you can and re-install everything.
Two different manufacturers, two 500+GB sized hard drives, 2 different machines, both fail with identical issues. I've put probably ten or more 500GB drives from both Seagate and WD into friends laptops over the last 2 years and they all are running fine.
Is anyone else having issues with these newer big drives or did my first 2 experiences with 500+GB drives just happen to be sour flukes?
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