Hard drive cable is a very very common thing to fail.
Keir said:
Hard drive cable is a very very common thing to fail.
For sure! They trashed it for a 15€ cable. Jusus Christ… 
Why these things never happens to me!?
Keir said:
Hard drive cable is a very very common thing to fail.
For sure! They trashed it for a 15€ cable. Jusus Christ…
Why these things never happens to me!?
It’s a 2012, they might have been looking for an excuse to upgrade
@Zion
The 2012 retina MacBook pro’s with SSDs are still incredible…
Edit: my god guys, keep this in the context of a 10 year old machine. The fact that it’s still used by many as a daily driver, light gaming, running media servers etc is impressive. I know myself and many others haven’t had a reason to upgrade until the M1’s came out.
@Wilder
good? absolutely. If you just wanna browse the internet and type word docs and stuff it’s perfectly good.
incredible though I would say is a stretch.
@Wilder
define incredible
@Wilder
This is not that. This is the previous gen. I daily a 2012 ‘new’ model retina. I will say yes it has aged incredibly well but the battery only lasts like 2/3 hours. For a 9 year old laptop though, the performance is still shockingly good.
@Huxley
I just bought a used 2012 non retina MBP a couple years ago. It’s my first laptop and it’s fantastic for light gaming and Photoshop. My father has a 2016 windows laptop that’s painful to use, 5200rpm HDD and 4gb of ram, a Pentium something, not to mention using windows is like pulling teeth even on a good day lol. But that’s why my dad’s laptop was about $800 brand new and mine was closer to $3000. Macs cost more but they last.
Keir said:
Hard drive cable is a very very common thing to fail.
For sure! They trashed it for a 15€ cable. Jusus Christ…
Why these things never happens to me!?
The problem here is that they trashed a perfectly fine computer, instead to try fixing it or sell, or donate to a school…
Keir said:
Hard drive cable is a very very common thing to fail.
Mine must be an anomaly. I’ve performed 2 hard drive replacements and removed the logic board twice. Still rocking the original cable 9 years later.
@Alix
Yeah it’s a bad HardDisk Cable
Keir said:
Hard drive cable is a very very common thing to fail.
What causes it to fail? It stays inside the laptop and never moves around or bends right?
Keir said:
Hard drive cable is a very very common thing to fail.
What causes it to fail? It stays inside the laptop and never moves around or bends right?
Even the slightest move messes it up. I had to replaced the whole cable just cause i changed the hard drive to a SSD.
@Keir
Wow, what a poorly designed cable
Grayson said:
@Keir
Wow, what a poorly designed cable
It’s a theme with Macbooks unfortunately
Grayson said:
@Keir
Wow, what a poorly designed cable
It’s a theme with Macbooks unfortunately
Yeah I could imagine because Apple doesn’t expect/intend the end user to replace the components themselves
@Grayson
So because Apple doesn’t intend for the end user to fix it (not their right to make that decision anyway), they have to design things that break easily? That’s a weird jump and I don’t see how it follows. I’d love to own a MacBook because I really like OSX but man not if they’re designed to break.
@Zane
There not that breakable. I’ve had a 2015 retina pro for 5 years 2021 being the 6th. It’s just if you get a defective one. Got an M1 Pro to replace it cause I do video editing so far so good.
@Zane
They probably assume the cable will never be touched in the lifetime of the machine so they didn’t bother making it sturdy/not easily broken if the hard drive is upgraded.
Just my 2c