TM shouldn't back everything up over again after a restore

Since I bought an Air without the solid-state disk that double its price, I have to pay the penalty of having the disk fail every three months. As if it wasn't enough trouble losing the files you were working on and leaving a machine I use every day in the shop for a week while they fix it, after I restore it from TM it keeps backing up the entire disk the next time I plug it in.
Surely there must be some way to mark the fact that the "new" files are identical to the ones in the TM store???
Apple, if you are going to sell us crap that fails every three months (OK, only 3 times so far in 11 months) can you at least make your backup system deal with the regular event of a new disk?

jjbryson wrote:
Surely there must be some way to mark the fact that the "new" files are identical to the ones in the TM store???
Sure, if TM did a byte-by-byte comparison of every file, which would make all your backups take exponentially longer. I'm not sure I understand why it's a problem.
Apple, if you are going to sell us crap that fails every three months (OK, only 3 times so far in 11 months) can you at least make your backup system deal with the regular event of a new disk?
I understand that you are frustrated, but you need to realize that this is not normal. Be logical: if this were normal, why would there be so many die-hard Mac fans out there? I've been using Macs since 1984, and I've never had a hard drive fail, even on a ten-year-old machine. I was once in charge of supporting 50+ Macs for a period of about 4 years, and during that time, I had some hardware failures, but never a hard drive failure.
You've either gotten very unlucky, or there's some reason for having three drives fail. Are you being hard on your machine? Note that hard drives that get bumped hard enough while spinning can have the disks collide with the read head, which will destroy the disks. This is obviously a more common problem with laptops than desktops, but I have been using laptops only for about 10 years, and with my problem-free history, it's evidently not that easy to do if you're not banging them around (which I don't do).

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