Hi all,
I've inherited a gang of MacBooks and Pros that have had the factory hard disks swapped out for Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB WD500BEVT.
This was done because the previous IT dept were all PC techs ;) and they took a cost effective PC approach without thought.
Since I've been here, most of these machine report to Console of disk I/O errors and a lot of ThrottleDisk I/O
I'm not a hardware engineer but the machines that have these drives installed usually come back to me with Kernel Panics, system freezes, hangs before login, I even see some that at reboot does the firmware update bar (but never find a firmware)… and the only common denominator I find is always griping about disk I/O.
So, I ask you guys/gals … does anyone swap out factory drives and any clues as far as what I should I be looking at for a replacement drive for Macs?
Our preferred vendor has no clue of Apple except they all tote iPhones… Actually, we have no Apple vendor… it's not my call, I told them but….. well, ya know how IT admins can be ;)
Thanks in advance,
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Pat Camporeale
"You don't need to be a mechanic to drive a car."
