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S.M.A.R.T. Status : failing....

Last week, when I was importing some photos into my MacBook Pro, it just locked up and after several attempts to restart it, I eventually managed to check the hard drive using the Disk Utility. Turns out the hard drive is on its last legs. The "S.M.A.R.T. Status" was showing up as "failing"!

It's just over two years since my last round of visits to my local Apple Store with the previous laptop, and today I found myself checking in to see if they had any 'walk-in' appointments free. Luckily they did, and after a short explanation of my problem and a diagnostics check, the MacBook Pro was duly whisked away for a hard drive replacement.

As 750GB hard drives are no longer listed as an option, I will be getting an "upgrade" to a beefy 1TB! I just hope it has a bit of a longer life span...

24 hours later...

"Your product is ready for pickup "

Just restored from my Time Machine backup and 673GB free (think it was about 450GB on the old drive).
All back to 'normal'...