hear, hear on the crapware on a WD external drive. Had one drive with the smart ware and some how I found a way to by pass it. Couldn't figure out how to get it to work--but that's because the smartware back-up software was really crapware. Hope you get stuff up and running nicely, Anthony.
Cheers, Christine On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:48 PM, Joseph McAllister <pentax...@mac.com> wrote: > Ditto on Macintosh computers. > > Using one gig out of the box as a backup one finds out that attaching through > a powered hub creates a hard drive that won't wake up for Retrospect, which > makes for no backup. When asleep, if it doesn't wake up fast enough for > Retrospect, which reports it to the OS as being missing, so it is unmounted > by the OS. It's a faulty combination of firmware and non-erasable software > that makes it unreliable for anything other than normal storage. > > It still sits on the shelf, waiting for some day that I may want to use it > for something else. All of my other drives are connected the same way, and > work reliably, or as reliable as any hard drive. I keep 5 TB of unused spares > on standby (2,2,1). > > > On Jul 31, 2012, at 03:17 , John Sessoms wrote: > >> This is such a heart-warming story for me. It makes me glad knowing that I'm >> not the only person on earth that computers hate. >> >> I will never buy another Western digital hard-drive, and especially never >> another MyBook. >> >> Several years ago, I bought a couple of MyBook drives (340GB & 500GB) >> because they seemed to be really inexpensive. I found out instead that >> they're just really CHEAP (Of poor quality; inferior; Worthy of no respect; >> vulgar or contemptible). There just don't seem to be enough low, vulgar >> synonyms for *PIECE OF SHIT* to describe MyBook power supplies. >> >> The only "positive" thing I can say about them is Windoze-XP didn't seem to >> have any problem blowing away the pre-installed CRAPWARE. >> >> I wish I had an answer for making folders "sharable" in Vista, but the only >> Vista computer I have has only one shared folder & all of the >> contents/sub-folders were auto-magically shared as well. >> >> From: Anthony Farr >> >>> Backups, to me, originally meant CDs, then DVDs. But doubts were >>> raised about the permanence of optical media, and my backup load was >>> too large to periodically refresh everything, so I moved to hard >>> drives. A couple of years ago I saw a product called Clickfree >>> Automatic Backup, which is a small device placed in the usb cable >>> between a computer on a wifi network and an external hard drive. With >>> a little bit of software running on each computer in the network, >>> they'd all be periodically backed up with no attention required. >>> Great! And in all honesty it worked a treat. My son and I had all >>> our data secured across 3 computers. >>> >>> But... and there's always a 'but', isn't there, the time came when my >>> 500GB drive wasn't a big enough repository, so I got a 1TB WD MyBook, >>> and my troubles began. Although there was nothing wrong with the >>> MyBook, it had its own backup software, didn't it. No worries, thinks >>> I, I'll just delete it from the drive. I don't want it, didn't ask >>> for it and won't ever use it, so why not? The answer to 'why not?' >>> was that WD had put the backup software on a fixed partition, and all >>> my subsequent research on forum after forum informed me that the >>> partition resists every attempt at deletion or reformatting. >>> Bastards! >>> >>> Never mind, thinks I, I'll just ignore it. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
