OxCreative
2009
A couple of days ago (31st January 2009) I received a birthday gift from my wonderful girlfriend -  a 320 gb seagate freeagent go (silver). Now whilst I work on a Mac, I  suggested for her to get me the standard one as opposed to the 320gb seagate freeagent go for mac (silver) which is approximiately $60 more for very little difference.
So after picking it up from the postal office after initially missing the delivery, I was excited to open it and try it out. I ripped open the packaging and plugged it into my macbook pro and waited… and waited and, to my utter disappointment after 10 minutes, still nothing happened.
I quickly went to the seagate website to find out what was wrong. Apparently, some macbooks and macbook pro’s have low usb power and not enough to support a 2.5″ drive. Seagate suggested I would need a usb Y-cable (which draws power from one port and power and data on the other).
As usual my impatience got the better of me and I went to good old reliable Google to scour the wondrous world of forums filled with people’s problems for mac usb power issues.
However, every link I clicked in Google, was flagged up as potentially containing malware and being harmful. My first thought was that I had some sort of hijacking malware on my mac which was affecting my browser and causing the issue.
Google's self discipline
I spent a further 30 minutes looking into anti-malware and spyware removers for Mac before I had the idea to test Google on another computer. Low and behold – Google was wrong!
Due to the usual reliability and problem-free searches I have with Google, the most logical answer to my problem was the last one that I thought of.
It just goes to show that just because something is usually reliable doesn’t mean it always will be.