My experience with WD drives is not great either. But not the drives themselves, the enclosures. Once I ditched the 2T RAID case and moved the drives into a third party RAID case, they became completely reliable.
I don't know what crapware comes on any drive. Any drive I buy I immediately reformat without looking at what's on it. I have everything I need to manage drives built into OS X, don't want any of that junk. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

