I don't blame you for your lack of confidence after 4 drives. I would be pretty leery too:
- When you say "the hard drive failed" specifically how did they fail?
- What were the indications of failure?
- What diagnostics were run?
- How reliable are the "local repair folks"? Are they Apple Certified?
- What brand(s) of hard drive were used in the replacements?
- Did the keyboard work before the first drive replacement?
- Did the keyboard work after it was replaced?
- Why was it necessary to use a drive cloned from your Mac?
I neglected to say welcome to FineTunedMac. My bad.
