Seagate 5400.3 Dead, Apple OEM, a few months old Options

[lepetitmartien]

I've just finished to (try to) check a Seagate 5400.3 160 GB hard drive that was installed by Apple in the Macbook C2D Black last model as a replacement for the "old" one that had issues (as I've not met this first disk, I won't comment). Seemingly, the heads must have crashed somehow and he can't be formated seriously, there's dead blocks etc.

As it died after only a few months, here are his nicknames, in case you have one of its little bro…

model ST9160821AS
SN 5RN09FZP
date 08142

Watch out!