Stan, I had a couple of WD RAID drives. The enclosures were crap, one failed within three months, the other ran but the configuration software wouldn't. I wouldn't blame OS X for their junk. I ripped all the drives out of those enclosures, tossed the enclosures, and put the drives into OtherWorldComputing's "Mercury Elite" enclosures—that was in 2008, the drives are still working beautifully today, with all my systems running Yosemite. WD produces good drives and crap enclosures and software, far as I'm concerned. LaCie is much more robust on the software and enclosure side of the fence.
— Otherwise … I stay up to date on operating system and application software for all my devices. Always. That way, I'm never making big jumps from ancient to current, and everything tends to work more smoothly. I might update one device and test it first before putting new releases onto my primary work machine, but the testing has rarely shown me a reason to hold off. PowerPC software is antique now … I deleted all of it when Snow Leopard came out and replaced it with newer, more modern, better functioning current software. The new look and feel of Yosemite was a little jarring at first, but eh? I've seen hundreds of variations on the these of OS UI since 1984. I always reserve judgement on anything new in UI look and feel for a month or two. I find that, for the most part, within a week and I can hardly remember what the old stuff looked like—and moreover, usually forget how to operate the old stuff nearly as fast. I concentrate my critique on things that don't function well, and file bugs with Apple (and third party companies) regularly. I've found that what I file as bugs is usually fixed within one or two dot-dot releases. I've had good experience with Yosemite, and by-and-large the industry reports of end-user problems have show the lowest bug count of the past four OS X releases. All of my work and personal Macs are running it (that's three laptops, two desktops, with the oldest machines being late-2010 issue) without any problems. What suits a particular person's needs, however, I cannot say for sure without lots more information about required use, required software, and the ability to obtain updated and more compatible software if there are incompatibilities. Advising on such things is a business of relevant detail information, not general suggestions. G -- 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.
