SSD vs HDD has been an epic battle of opinions and facts for a while now. Details matter.
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Well, if they remove the drives outside your iMac for data recovery, please ensure you are aware and that the techs verify that you have a Fusion Drive. A Fusion Drive on an iMac is a combination of a large capacity HDD and lower capacity SSD. Both those devices are needed to have a complete file recovery. Can check for all details by serial number lookup at everymac.com. Watch video for full data recovery description
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What is it?
Stiction is a condition of an HDD where the reading heads arm gets stuck onto the surface of the disks.
Read more to see how it happens, how to prevent it and what to do about it.
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An HDD not spinning could be caused by a couple of failures, most times could be mechanically related, while some times electronically related. This article explains when a hard drive does not spin as result of PCB electronic failure.
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