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Title: Apple admits hard-disks are falling asleep mid-operation Post by: Alex on August 12, 2009, 06:50:11 AM Apple admits hard-disks are falling asleep mid-operation
Recently, reports have been surfacing of Macbook Pro laptops repetitively temporarily freezing for short amounts of time. Today, Apple announced that this problem is widespread and they have promised to provide a bug fix. The issue only seems to affect MacBook Pros with 7200rpm 500GB hard drives and is thought to be due to code that's causing the drive to sleep during use. The hard disks in question fall asleep during operation, and freeze the computer temporarily until it spins up again - after an indeterminate amount of time - usually a maximum of 10 seconds. They also beep loudly and click during the process. Read full story... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/e48ZAGpsXIc/apple-admits-hard-disks-are-falling-asleep-mid-operation |