Apple OS X file system far less robust than NTFS?
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I'm currently in a bit of a grump as the hard disk on my MacBook is about to die....again.....for the second time.
The only time I realise it's about to go is when OS X refuses to boot, however Windows works fine and is only affected in the later stages of hard disk failure.
It makes me wonder how reliable and robust the OS X file system is! If my NTFS system can take the damage, why can't the OS X file system!?
On a side-note, I will never purchase another Seagate drive again. Two drives that fail, one after the other in a period of six months is more than just coincidence (IMHO)....
The only time I realise it's about to go is when OS X refuses to boot, however Windows works fine and is only affected in the later stages of hard disk failure.
It makes me wonder how reliable and robust the OS X file system is! If my NTFS system can take the damage, why can't the OS X file system!?
On a side-note, I will never purchase another Seagate drive again. Two drives that fail, one after the other in a period of six months is more than just coincidence (IMHO)....
lestag said:
It is probably the quality of the drive rather than any FS issues. perhaps go to teh dark side and buy a PC?? 
The only reason I have a MacBook is to test iPhone apps. That's it. Other than this, I never use OSX as I think it's terrible and I run Windows 7 on the hardware. It runs beautifully apart from when the hard disk fails.... 
cs02rm0 said:
Erm. It's probably down to the affected parts of the disk being in important places for the OSX OS, rather than the Windows one?
It's certainly not that NTFS is a superior filesystem. What do you expect OSX to do if it needs to read from failed sectors?
Perhaps not.....but on both occasions when the HD failed, OSX was first to refuse to boot.It's certainly not that NTFS is a superior filesystem. What do you expect OSX to do if it needs to read from failed sectors?
Windows just seems to chug along and gradually die when the HD completely fails.....
cs02rm0 said:
If you bought a disk from the same manufacturer and it failed again it wouldn't surprise me if it failed in the same way. Especially if it was partitioned in a similar fashion.
????? How does this make sense. Although it wasn't formatted in the same way (the last disk was 320GB and the current failed drive is 500GB), I don't see why this would make a difference.Nevertheless my confidence in Seagate is all but gone. I'll stick with Samsung or WD from now on.
cs02rm0 said:
If you have your NTFS partition on the first section of the disk and it starts at the outside of the platter and these disks start failing from the inside of the platter because it's overheating, then OSX is likely to nose dive before Windows and could happen with drives of different sizes. The detail's irrelevant, the point is that I wouldn't expect either hard disk failure or NTFS/HFS file placement to be random across the disk.
It's more plausible than NTFS being able to workaround hard disk failure.
Fair point....I guess we'll have to see with the new HDD..... It's more plausible than NTFS being able to workaround hard disk failure.
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